The first title in the new Very Best Of collection taken over by Magic Dream, this volume on Dai Vernon is one of the most iconic there is. Unavailable for many years, here is your chance to complete or start a legendary collection.

If close-up magic, and more specifically card magic, has become the rich and subtle art it undoubtedly is today, it is largely thanks to the talent, dedication and genius of one man, and the universal influence he has had on generations of magicians who drew inspiration from his methods and his style. That man is Dai Vernon.

Dai Vernon is probably a unique case in the history of magic, since he became interested in it from the age of five, spent more than 50 years rubbing shoulders with every great name in American magic, and throughout his life never ceased to simplify and improve everything these great magicians had shown him, and everything he had invented himself. In this book devoted to his landmark contributions to card magic, you'll find the famous Vernon touch at every turn of the page, characterized (among other things) by the scrupulous elimination of every suspicious, awkward or simply hard-to-conceal move, and its replacement with a devilishly ingenious subtlety, to produce an effect that looks like real magic.

The effects invented by Dai Vernon have practically all become classics of card magic, so clear is their flow and so pure their design. None of the selected routines requires exceptional skill or special knowledge; each one is of an exemplary sobriety and economy of means, rarely matched by other magicians. Countless variations have been devised from the tricks of the man affectionately known as The Professor, but none of them has the simplicity or beauty of the original creation.

Format:

Format 16.5 × 23.5 cm, 170 pages, French translation by Richard Vollmer.

Third edition with a foreword by Bernard Bilis.

Contents:

• Betrayed by Emotion
• Card Cocktail
• The Corner-Crimped Card Prediction
• Do As I Do Encore
• Do As I Do – The Sign of the Four
• The Color-Changing Deck
• Twisting the Aces
• Elementary Arithmetic
• Secrets
• Think of a Card
• Think of an Ace
• Out of Sight, Out of Mind
• Thought Transposition
• Card Puzzle
• Mystery in Red and Black
• Oil and Water
• The Push-Through False Shuffle
• The Obedient Aces
• The Protean Ace
• Square Spelling
• Three Card Monte
• The Naive Cheat
• The Four Blue-Backed Aces
• Elementary Mathematics
• How to Force a Card
• Using the Short Card
• Swivelleroo
• The Trick That Cannot Be Explained
• The Fingerprint Expert
• The Calculating Cards
• Triangular Spelling
• The Count Is Right!
• The Expert at the Card Table
• Family Plot
• Dai Vernon's Poker Demonstration
• The Klondike Prediction
• The Indicator Cards
• Dai Vernon's version of Henry Christ's Ace Trick
• Mind Reading