Discontinued for years, magic collectors have an incredible opportunity to get their hands on an EXTREMELY RARE collector’s edition of Vernon’s Inner Trilogy by Dai Vernon. To my knowledge only 100 of this Collector’s Edition were made. Best of all this book is in its original shrink wrap (which is the reason the image is a bit funky :)!
About the Book
Many professional magicians agree that you can’t truly consider yourself a well-rounded card magician until you’ve read Vernon’s Inner Card Trilogy. This a special collection of three Vernon books that were groundbreaking at the time of their release and are still incredibly impressive to this day. These texts, Inner Secrets of Card Magic, More Inner Secrets of Card Magic and Further Inner Secrets of Card Magic, were compiled and photographed by Lewis Ganson.
In 1969, famous magic dealer Harry Stanley claimed that the magic within the Inner Card Trilogy would still be fresh in 50 years time. Well, all these years later, we’re here to agree with Harry Stanley. This material is still fresh and many magicians still entertain and fool magicians and audiences alike with some of the tricks published in this collection!
There are dozens of classic magic tricks and essential card sleights taught in this book, including beloved card tricks such as “Twisting the Aces”, “The Trick That Cannot Be Explained”, “Emotional Reaction” and many others.
Contents
Dai Vernon’s “Inner Secrets of Card Magic: Part One”
Foreword: Dai Vernon
Preface: Is Magic an Art? Cy Enfield
Introduction: Lewis Ganson
Chapter One: Taking Things Easy
Emotional Reaction
Cocktail Cards
The Bent Corner Prediction
Color Separation
Chapter Two: A Little Thought Required
Repeat “Do As I Do”
Four of a Kind
Matching the Cards
Dai Vernon’s Color Changing Pack
Chapter Three: Hanging By a Thread (tricks using Invisible Thread)
The Rising Cards
The Pack that Cuts Itself (Al Baker)
The Walking and Jumping Card (Al Baker)
Chapter Four: Novel Knowledge
To Show the Top Card
The Ginsburg Poke
Jumbo Surprise
Elastic Touch
Time to Change
Chapter Five: Color Changes
Tenkai’s Color Change
Al Altmann’s Double Color Change
Dai Vernon’s Picking Off the Pip
Erdnase Plus Vernon
Dai Vernon’s “No Palm” Color Change
Dai Vernon’s Pinch Color Change
Dai Vernon’s French Drop Color Change
Bob Hummer’s Visual Change
Cliff Green’s Visual Change
Chapter Six – Desterous Deception
Production of Cards with Fingers Interlocked
Bob Hummer’s Variation
Chapter Seven: The Notis Stop Trick
The Notis Stop Trick (Senor Notis)
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
Dai Vernon’s “More Inner Secrets of Card Magic”
Introduction: Lewis Ganson
Chapter One: Twisting the Aces
Twisting the Aces
Chapter Two: Think of a Card
Simple Arithmetic
Riffled Thought
Think of an Ace
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Thought Transposed
Chapter Three: Oil And Water
Combination of Marlo’s Oil and Water & Vernon’s Follow the Leader
Chapter Four: McDonald’s $100 Routine
McDonald’s $100 Routine (aka McDonald’s Aces)
Chapter Five: The Notis Cascade
The Notis Cascade (Senor Notis)
Chapter Six: Mainly Manipulation
Allen Shaw’s Card Production
Cardini’s Card Production
Mosquito Parade
Chapter Seven: Magic With the Riffle Shuffle
Basic Formation of a Step
The Pull Through Shuffle
The Pull Out Shuffle
Retaining the Top Stock
Zarrow Full Deck Control
Side Riffle Cut
Transferring a Bottom Stock to the Top
Reversal of Bottom Cards
To Keep the Colors Separated
To Bring Cards to the Top
Chapter Eight: Crimps
Top Card Crimp
Corner Crimp
Whole Pack Crimp
Cut Crimp
Spring Crimp
Mexican Joe’s Crimp
Snap Crimp
Chapter Nine: Cards to Pocket
Cards to Pocket
Chapter Ten: Forcing a Card
The Classic Force
The Malini Force
The Riffle Force
Fan Force
Back to Back Force: force card face up on face down deck
Chapter Eleven: The Trick that Cannot Be Explained
The Trick that Cannot Be Explained
Chapter Twelve: Vernon Touches
The Vernon Glide
The Push-Off Count
The Buckle Count
Dai Vernon’s Further Inner Secrets of Card Magic
Foreword: Ken Brooke
Chapter One: The Four Blue Backed Aces
The Four Blue Backed Aces
Chapter Two: Blindfold Poker Deal
Blindfold Poker Deal
Chapter Three: Cards of Coincidence
Cards of Coincidence
Chapter Four: Three Card Monte
Three Card Mont
The Use of a Short Card
The Optical Move
Chapter Five: Larry Grey’s Cards Across
Larry Gray’s “Cards Across”
Chapter Six: More Novel Knowledge
To Shuffle a Certain Number of Cards Above a Selected Card
Plunger Location
Card from Pocket
Switching a Card in an Envelope
Double Lift From Fan
Staring Him in the Face
Chapter Seven: Palming
Top Palm (Dai Vernon)
Other Methods Of Palming: Intro
To Palm a Card From the Pack With the Gambler’s Palm
One Handed Palm (Dai Vernon)
Second Gambler’s Palm
Springing a Card into the Gambler’s Palm Position
Some Useful Notes on Palming
Chapter Eight: Dealing Seconds
Dai Vernon’s Second Deal
Single Handed Method
Dai Vernon’s “New Theory” Second Deal
A Quick Trick
Chapter Nine: The Card Puzzle
The Card Puzzle
Chapter Ten: Another Larry Grey Trick
Another Larry Grey Trick
Chapter Eleven: Changes
The Top Change
The Bottom Change
One-Handed Card Change (Dai Vernon)
Harry Lorayne’s Change For Four Cards
Chapter Twelve: Two Tricks
Dai Vernon’s Version of “Everywhere and Somewhere”
Matching Any Number of Cards
240 pages | Hardcover
