Dai Vernon – Inner Secrets of Card Magic

Inner Secrets of Card Magic (1959)

1st edition 1959; original 76 pages; PDF 59 pages.

Table of Contents

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CONTENTS
FOREWORD
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE： TAKING THINGS EASY
– Emotional Reaction
– Cocktail Cards
– The Bent Corner Prediction
– Colour Separation
CHAPTER TWO： A LITTLE THOUGHT REQUIRED
– Repeat “Do As I Do”
– Four Of A Kind
– Matching The Cards
– Dai Vernon’s Colour Changing Pack
CHAPTER THREE： HANGING BY A THREAD
– The Rising Cards
– The Pack That Cuts Itself
– The Walking And Jumping Card
CHAPTER FOUR： NOVEL KNOWLEDGE
– To Show The Top Card
– The Ginsburg Poke
– Jumbo Surprise
– Elastic Touch
– Time To Change
CHAPTER FIVE： COLOUR CHANGES
– 1 — Tenkai’s Colour Change
– 2 — Al Altmann’s Double Colour Change
– 3 — Dai Vernon’s “Picking Off The Pip”
– 4 — Erdnase Plus Vernon
– 5 — Dai Vernon’s “No Palm” Colour Change
– 6 — Dai Vernon’s Pinch Colour Change
– 7 — Dai Vernon’s French Drop Colour Change
– 8 — Bob Hummer’s Visual Change
– 9 — Cliff Green’s Visual Change
CHAPTER SIX： DEXTEROUS DECEPTION
– Production Of Cards With Fingers Interlocked
– Bob Hummer’s Variation
CHAPTER SEVEN： THE NOTIS STOP TRICK
CHAPTER EIGHT： MEXICAN TRICKERY
– Sure Fire Showdown
– Bathroom Strippers
CHAPTER NINE： MIRACLES TAKE A LITTLE LONGER
– The Chinese Second Deal
– The Shooting Single Handed Deal
– Look Up

The second part in Vernon’sInner Secrets of Card Magictrilogy is the jewel in this series. It features such classics as “Twisting the Aces” (which includes the first publication of Alex Emsley’s “Four as Four Count” – better known as Ghost count or Elmsley count)， “Out of Sight–Out of Mind，” “Oil and Water，” “McDonald’s $100 Routine，” and “The Trick that Cannot be Explained” the ultimate jazz magic effect. You will also find a number of Vernon Touches on his riffle shuffle technique， crimps， Zarrow shuffle and others.

This ebook is absolute must read for any card magician. You should read all three parts but this second part you simply can’t ignore.