Lewis Ganson

Dai Vernon's Ultimate Secrets Of Card Magic

L&L Pub (1995)

B0006QNQB8

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186 pages | USA | English

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Dewey 793.8

Genre

Conjuring

Subject

Magic tricks

Plot

Ganson, Lewis: Dai Vernon's Ultimate Card Secrets
©1995 L&L Publishing
Hardcover, 1862 pages

Comments ( Uli Weigel): The biggest book of the "Inner Secrets"-Series. Only exceptionally good stuff, no fillers. Effects and techniques of Vernon and many other well known friends of the Professor, like Larry Jennings, Roy Walton, Alex Elmsley, to name a few. Highly recommended.

Contents:

1 Foreword

7 Chapter 1: Starting Right

15 Section One: Card Effects

17 Chapter 2: Matched Spellout

23 Chapter 3: The Perfect Circle of Cards

27 Chapter 4: Secrets

31 Chapter 5: Do As I Do

37 Chapter 6: Black and Red Puzzle

41 Chapter 7: Mental Spell

45 Chapter 8: Ten Gives Three

49 Chapter 9 The Magic of Larry Jennings
49 Tell-Tale Aces

59 Chapter 10: Larreverse

67 Chapter 11: Gambler's Triumph

75 Chapter 12: The Changing of the Guard

83 Chapter 13: Monarch's Quartette

89 Chapter 14: Les Cartes Diaconis

95 Chapter 15: Running the Scale

99 Chapter 16: Pure Mathematics

103 Chapter 17: Slow Motion Card Vanish

110 Section Two - Card Sleights and Moves

112 Chapter 18: Vernon on the Pass
112 Standard Pass
114 The Black Pass
116 Location Pass
117 Sprong's Pass
118 Fan Pass Transformation

121 Chapter 19: Vernon on Table Passes
121 First Method
122 Second Method
123 Mexican Joe's Table Pass
124 Charlie Miller's Table Pass

128 Chapter 20: After Peeking
128 Pressure Fan
129 Spread Location
131 Shuffle to Top
132 Double Peep Control
132 Three Break Control
134 Multiple Peek Control
134 Transferring the Break
135 Spectator Finds His Own Card
137 Adaption of Greek Break

141 Chapter 21: One Handed Shuffles
141 Benzon's Shuffle
142 Vernon's Shuffle

145 Chapter 22: Card Placement
145 Vernon's Placement
146 John McCormick's Penetration

150 Chapter 23: Handling a Short Card
150 Locating a Short Card
150 The Corner Short
150 Vernon's Method of Handling

155 Chapter 24: Magic Castle Moves
155 All Around Square Up
157 Jenning's Top Palm
159 Key Card Placement
159 Small Packet Glide
161 Rooklyn Top Palm

165 Chapter 25: More Useful Sleights & Moves
165 Single Shuffle Control
165 Spreading Six Cards as Five
166 Key Card Locacation
168 Cold Deck Cut

172 Chapter 26: Two Sleights by Dr. Elliott
172 Bottom Deal
174 Favourite Break Control

175 Section Three: Friends of Dai Vernon

177 Chapter 27: Magic from Britain
177 Slippery Aces (Jack Avis)
182 Double Prediction (Alex Elmsley)
183 Face Your Brothers (Alex Elmsley)
186 Last Word Four Aces (Francis Haxton)
190 The Innocent Cheat (Fred Lowe)
193 Thought of Card Across (Peter Warlock)
198 Fellow Travellers (Roy Walton)

203 Chapter 28: Magic from Canada
203 Pivot Change (Ross Bertram)
205 Bottom Steal & Recovery (Ross Bertram)

209 Chapter 29: Magic from Holland
209 The Three Jokers (Fred Kaps)
213 Ups and Downs (Rink)
216 Find the Ace (Eddie Taytelbaum)
220 Infallible Force (Eddie Taytelbaum)

226 Chapter 30: Magic From Ireland
226 Vernons Variant (Dai Vernon)
228 Emerald Isle Aces (Vernon -Ross- Lambert)
229 Swivelleroo (Hubert Lambert)

233 Chapter 31: Magic from U.S.A.
233 Card Transposition (Francis Carlyle)
235 You Get It (Gerald Kosky)
237 One Pack "Do As I Do" (Jay Ose)
239 Sleight of Mind (Bill Simon)

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Owner	Bryan-Keith Taylor
Location	Magic Library (Home)
Index	4369
Added Date	Jul 01, 2017 03:06:49
Modified Date	Apr 06, 2026 14:22:07

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Book Condition	Mint

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Lewis Ganson
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Lewis Ganson

Cover of Genii (1974)
Born Lewis Jack Ganson
April 15, 1913
Burford Arms, Startford Market, London, England
Died December 22, 1980 (age 67)
Hampshire, England
Categories Books by Lewis Ganson
Lewis Ganson (b.1913-d.1980) was one of the most prolific writers in magic with over sixty books to his credit.

Contents
1 Biography
2 Awards and Honors
3 Books
4 References
Biography
He was a professional close-up magician, except for his time in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps 1939-1958.

For years, Ganson was editor of Harry Stanley's magazine The Gen and contributor to the Magigram magazine. He was a vice president of the British Ring of the IBM and a founding member of the Portsmouth and District Magic Circle.

Awards and Honors
Academy of Magical Arts' first Literary Fellowship in 1968.
Books
Expert Manipulation of Playing Cards (1948)
How Right You Are (1948)
Routined Manipulation, Vol. 1 (1950)
Routined Manipulation, Vol. 2 (1952)
Routined Manipulation Finale (1954)
Cy Endfield's Entertaining Card Magic (1955)
A Magician Explains (1955)
Cy Endfield's Entertaining Card Magic II (1956)
Dai Vernon Book of Magic (1957)
Cy Endfield's Entertaining Card Magic III (1958)
Dai Vernon's Inner Secrets of Card Magic (1959)
Magic from the Mind (1959)
Dai Vernon's More Inner Secrets of Card Magic (1960)
The Magic of Slydini (1960)
Dai Vernon's Further Secrets of Card Magic (1961)
Malini and His Magic (1962)
Dai Vernon's Tribute to Nate Leipzig (1963)
Dai Vernon's Ultimate Secrets of Card Magic (1967)
The Art of Close-up, Vol. 1 (1967)
The Art of Close-up, Vol. 2 (1969)
Ganson Teach-In Series (1977-1987)
The Ganson Book (1983)
The Complete Ganson Magic Teach-In Series (2010)
References
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The Gen, Vol. 5, No. 5, September 1949, FRONT PAGE PERSONALITIES, LEWIS GANSON and JO, page 134
Cover Genii 1974 December
Magic Circular, Vol. 75, No. 812, January 1981, Obituaries, LEWIS GANSON, page 27
Obit Genii 1981 January
The Linking Ring, Vol.61, No. 3, March 1981, Our Side of the Pond by PETER WARLOCK, page 93, LEWIS GANSON, page 117
M-U-M, Vol. 70, No.10, MARCH 1981, Broken Wands, LEWIS GANSON, page 39
Goodliffe's Abracadabra, Vol. 73, No. 1896, May 1982, Tribute to Lewis Ganson, page 676
Genii, Vol. 46, No. 7, July 1982, TRIBUTE TO LEWIS GANSON, page 461
Magicana, Vol. 30, No. 176, July-August 1982, TRIBUTE TO LEWIS GANSON EVENING – 17 MAY 1982 by EDWIN HOOPER
The Magic Circular, Vol. 100, No. 1075, February 2006, A Tribute to Lewis Ganson – Alexander Crawford by Peter Altman, page 63
Lewis Ganson - Dai Vernon book of Magic bibliography