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Date AddedOct 17, 2003
Vernon Chronicles - Dai Vernon Inner Card Trilogy, The
Ganson, Lewis
L & L Publishing
(Based on 1 review)
- Harry Stanley, The Gen January 1969
Perhaps Hofzinser said it best, "card effects are the poetry of conjuring." If that is so, Dai Vernon was a master poet.
Beginning at the tender age of five, David Frederick Wingfield Verner passionately embraced the art of magic with all his heart and soul-he never let go. Nothing got between him and his lifelong quest for perfection at his craft.
His well-grounded knowledge of the principles of conjuring and his skillful knack for expanding upon those principles gained him world-wide admiration. His many innovations have become "the stuff that dreams are made of." Magicians respected him because he respected magic. It is well documented that he had a profound influence on his contemporaries as well as on the subsequent "new wave" of close-up practitioners that faithfully followed his teachings. Cervon, Jennings, Klause, Skinner, et al, they felt "The Vernon Touch"...they still do...so will you.
Thoughtfully pursue the pages of this book with cards in hand and you'll soon realize whey they all lovingly call Dai Vernon, "The Professor."
Pages 240 - Hardbound with dustjacket.
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Dai Vernon's Inner Card Trilogy is a classic in card magic. This book is full of Vernon's classic effects and touches many of which go unused by the majority of professionals. This book has the feel of a best of, it takes 3 of Vernon's lecture notes Inner Secrets of Card Magic, More Inner Secrets of Card Magic and Further Inner Secrets of Card Magic and combines them all under one cover.
The magic described is solid and much of it is considered go to tricks by many professionals. Effect such as Twisting the Aces, McDonald's Aces, Oil and Water and The Trick That Cannot be Explained are found here with ideas and variations on the second deal, cards across, false shuffles and much more.
I have taken another look at some of the changes described and fooled a couple magicians with one at our last club meeting. This volume deserves to be in every card magicians library.
The magic described is solid and much of it is considered go to tricks by many professionals. Effect such as Twisting the Aces, McDonald's Aces, Oil and Water and The Trick That Cannot be Explained are found here with ideas and variations on the second deal, cards across, false shuffles and much more.
I have taken another look at some of the changes described and fooled a couple magicians with one at our last club meeting. This volume deserves to be in every card magicians library.