Dai Vernon's Inner Secrets of Card Magic - Lewis Ganon - Crowell Estate
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2 Contents
3 Foreword: Dai Vernon
4 Preface: Is Magic an Art? Cy Enfield
5 Introduction: Lewis Ganson
7 Chapter One: Taking Things Easy
7 Emotional Reaction: a card location
10 Cocktail Cards: performer reaches into a hat with all the cards mixed in it and pulls out three prior selections
12 The Bent Corner Prediction: a prediction card is used and a prediction comes true
14 Colour Separation: four reds and four blacks are mixed and the magician separates the reds from the blacks behind his back
17 Chapter Two: A Little Thought Required
17 Repeat "Do As I Do": in this version the magician and spectator do not need to exchange packs
19 Four of a Kind: both magician and spectator are seen to have chosen the same two cards, which end up face down in the face up packs
22 Matching the Cards: the magician matches a selected card by cutting to three more eights, but the selected card turns out to be a King. The three other cards are now turned over and are Kings
25 Dai Vernon's Colour Changing Pack: the entire deck changes color
27 Chapter Three: Hanging By a Thread (tricks using I.T.)
27 The Rising Cards: Cards rise well into the other hand!
30 The Pack that Cuts Itself (Al Baker): pack self-cuts at the selection
33 The Walking and Jumping Card (Al Baker): selection crawls out of a hat!
35 Chapter Four: Novel Knowledge:
35 To Show the Top Card: a flourishy way to show the top card
36 The Ginsburg Poke: a deck cut that brings a selection to the top
38 Jumbo Surprise: the surprise appearance of a Jumbo card
39 Elastic Touch: an alternative to salt
40 Time to Change: wiping the hands clean while concealing a card
43 Chapter Five: Colour Changes
43 1 - Tenkai's Colour Change
45 2 - Al Altmann's Double Colour Change: face card of pack changes twice
47 3 - Dai Vernon's "Picking Off the Pip": a Three to a Two
49 4 - Erdnase Plus Vernon
50 5 - Dai Vernon's "No Palm" Colour Change
51 6 - Dai Vernon's Pinch Colour Change
52 7 - Dai Vernon's French Drop Colour Change
53 8 - Bob Hummer's Visual Change: one card (not the pack) held in the fingers
55 9 - Cliff Green's Visual Change: another change without the pack
57 Chapter Six - Desterous Deception
57 Production of Cards with Fingers Interlocked: Hands are interlocked and both sides shown, yet cards are produced
63 Bob Hummer's Variation: another approach
65 Chapter Seven: The Notis Stop Trick
65 The Notis Stop Trick (Senor Notis): cards are levered one at a time from the pack, when the spectator yells "stop", the card is the selection
69 Chapter Eight: Mexican Trickery
69 Sure-Fire Showdown: a two hand poker challenge
70 Bathroom Strippers: how to make your own "emergency" stripper deck
71 Chapter Nine: Miracles Take a Little Longer
71 The Chinese Second Deal: an approach to 2nd dealing
74 The Shooting Single Handed Deal: send the cards spinning
75 Look Up: a psychological approach to determining a "thought of" card
