Lewis Ganson

The Essential Dai Vernon

L & L Publishing (Jul 2009)

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1100 pages | USA | eng

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Conjuring

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Magic tricks
Magician - Biography

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Ganson, Lewis: The Essential Dai Vernon
©2009 L & L Publishing
Hardcover, 1,100 pages

Dai Vernon was the most influential magician of the twentieth century. His vision helped to define and raise the artistry of close-up and platform magic to a degree unequalled by any other magician then or today. His thinking pushed magic into the modern era. His contribution to magic was essential to its refinement and growth. His own magic is perhaps the most important—indeed essential—body of work ever produced for the art.
And now you can have The Essential Dai Vernon to guide, inspire and accelerate your progress in magic. This single, mammoth volume contains all the Vernon classics written by Lewis Ganson:

•The Dai Vernon Book of Magic
•Inner Secrets of Card Magic
•More Inner Secrets of Card Magic
•Further Inner Secrets of Card Magic
•Dai Vernon’s Ultimate Secrets of Card Magic
•Dai Vernon’s Tribute to Nate Leipzig
•Malini and His Magic
•Dai Vernon’s Symphony of the Rings
. . . and the remarkable, previously unpublished “Vernon Scrapbook,” more than 70 pages of rare photos, correspondence and memorabilia!

Almost 1100 pages of the finest magic from the most respected magician of our time. If you bought these masterworks separately, you would pay $225 or more, if you can even find them. The Essential Dai Vernon places them into your hands, in one beautiful hardcover volume with full-color dustjacket, for almost half that price.

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Location	Magic Library (Home)
Index	4370
Added Date	Jul 01, 2017 03:06:50
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