Ultimate Secrets of Card Magic

This work was planned to be the last volume in Dai Vernon's Inner Card Secrets series. However, due to water damage caused by a fire the typed manuscript was lost. It took several years to recover from this mishap and therefore this last volume was originally published much later than the first three volumes (Inner Secrets of Card Magic, More Inner Secrets of Card Magic, Further Inner Secrets of Card Magic). The wait was justified because it was and still is one of the important works of card magic - now available as an ebook.

No serious card man can exist without reading and studying this work.

1st edition 1967; original 246 pages; PDF 156 pages

5. CONTENTS
7. FOREWORD
10. CHAPTER ONE: STARTING RIGHT
15. CHAPTER TWO: MATCHED SPELLOUT
19. CHAPTER THREE: THE PERFECT CIRCLE OF CARDS
21. CHAPTER FOUR: "SECRETS"
23. CHAPTER FIVE: "DO AS I DO"
26. CHAPTER SIX: BLACK AND RED PUZZLE
29. CHAPTER SEVEN: MENTAL SPELL
31. CHAPTER EIGHT: TEN GIVES THREE
34. CHAPTER NINE: THE MAGIC OF LARRY JENNINGS
40. CHAPTER TEN: LARREVERSE
45. CHAPTER ELEVEN: GAMBLER'S TRIUMPH
50. CHAPTER TWELVE: THE CHANGING OF THE GUARD
55. CHAPTER THIRTEEN: MONARCHS' QUARTETTE
58. CHAPTER FOURTEEN: LES CARTES DIACONIS
61. CHAPTER FIFTEEN: RUNNING THE SCALE
62. CHAPTER SIXTEEN: PURE MATHEMATICS
63. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: SLOW MOTION CARD VANISH
67. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: VERNON ON THE PASS
69. - The Black Pass
70. - Location Pass
71. - Sprong's Pass
72. - Fan Pass Transformation
74. CHAPTER NINETEEN: VERNON ON TABLE PASSES
75. - Mexican Joe's Table Pass
76. - Charlie Miller's Table Pass
78. CHAPTER TWENTY: AFTER PEEKING
79. - 1. Pressure Fan
79. - 2. Spread Location
80. - 3. To Shuffle The Card To The Top With The Riffle Shuffle
81. - 4. Double Peek Control
82. - 5. Three Break Control
83. - 6. Multiple Peek Control
83. - 7. Transferring the Break
84. - 8. A Spectator Finds His Own Card
85. - 9. Adaptation Of The Greek Break For Card Stabbing
87. CHAPTER TWENTY ONE: ONE HANDED SHUFFLES
87. - Benzon's Shuffle
88. - Vernon One-Handed Shuffle
89. CHAPTER TWENTY TWO: CARD PLACEMENT
90. - Penetration - John McCormick
92. CHAPTER TWENTY THREE: HANDLING A SHORT CARD
95. CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR: MAGIC CASTLE MOVES
95. - All Around Square Up
97. - Jenning's Top Palm
98. - Key Card Placement
99. - Small Packet Glide
100. - The Rooklyn Top Palm
103. CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE: MORE USEFUL SLEIGHTS AND MOVES
103. - Single Shuffle Control
103. - Spreading Six Cards As Five
104. - Key Card Location
105. - Cold Deck Cut
107. CHAPTER TWENTY SIX: TWO SLEIGHTS BY Dr. ELLIOTT
107. - Bottom Deal
109. - Dr. Elliott's Favourite Break Control
111. CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN: MAGIC FROM BRITAIN
111. - Slippery Aces - Jack Avis
114. - Double Prediction - Alex Elmsley
115. - Face Your Brothers - Alex Elmsley
117. - Last Word Four Aces - Francis Haxton
120. - The Innocent Cheat - Fred Lowe
122. - Thought Of Card Across - Peter Warlock
125. - Fellow Travellers - Roy Walton
128. CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT: MAGIC FROM CANADA
128. - Pivot Change - Ross Bertram
129. - Bottom Steal And Recovery - Ross Bertram
132. CHAPTER TWENTY NINE: MAGIC FROM HOLLAND
132. - The Three Jokers - Fred Kaps
135. - Ups And Downs - Rink
137. - Find The Ace - Eddie Taytelbaum
140. - Infallible Force - Eddie Taytelbaum
143. CHAPTER THIRTY: MAGIC FROM IRELAND
143. - Vernon's Variant - Dai Vernon
145. - Emerald Isle Aces - Dai Vernon, Faucett Ross and Hubert Lambert
146. - Swivelleroo - Hubert Lambert
148. CHAPTER THIRTY ONE: MAGIC FROM U. S. A
148. - Card Transpostion - Francis Carlyle
149. - 'You Get It' - Gerald Kosky
151. - 'Do As I Do' With One Pack - Jay Ose
152. - Sleight of Mind - Bill Simon

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