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Select Secrets

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Select Secrets
AuthorDai Vernon
PublisherMax Holden
Publication Date1941
LanguageEnglish
Pages32
 

Select Secrets is the only book that Dai Vernon entirely wrote himself.

It contained "ten new, exclusive effects never before released - subtle stuff with cards, coins, matches, cigarettes, silks and paper".

Reviewed in Genii 1941 April & Genii 1949 May, it was revised and enlarged in 1949.

Table of Contents

  • Topping the Deck
  • The Royal Marriages
  • Follow the Leader (1949)
  • Vernon's Automatic Gambler (1949)
  • Addition and Subtraction
  • The Little Dictators (Methods 1 & 2)
  • Winged Silver
  • Two Impromptus By T. Nelson Downs
    • Fallacy of Vision
    • Matchless Digits
  • A Cigarette Switch
  • Heads or Tails
  • Twentieth-Century Handkerchief Trick
  • Snow Storm in China
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