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The only book that Dai Vernon entirely wrote himself.
 
 
Ten new, exclusive effects never before released - subtle stuff with cards, coins, matches, cigarettes, silks and paper.
 
 
 
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'''Select Secrets''' is the only book that Dai Vernon entirely wrote himself.
  
Reviewed in [[Genii 1941 April]]
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It contained "ten new, exclusive effects never before released - subtle stuff with cards, coins, matches, cigarettes, silks and paper".
  
Revised and Enlarged version in 1948.
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Reviewed in [[Genii 1941 April]] & [[Genii 1949 May]], it was revised and enlarged in 1949.
  
 
==Table of Contents==
 
==Table of Contents==
 
*Topping the Deck
 
*Topping the Deck
 
*The Royal Marriages
 
*The Royal Marriages
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*Follow the Leader (1949)
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*Vernon's Automatic Gambler (1949)
 
*Addition and Subtraction
 
*Addition and Subtraction
 
*The Little Dictators (Methods 1 & 2)
 
*The Little Dictators (Methods 1 & 2)
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Latest revision as of 11:38, 24 April 2015

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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