Revelation (2013) by Dai Vernon

Details: This is not a reprint of our 1984 edition of Revelations, Dai Vernon’s legendary annotations for The Expert at the Card Table by S.W. Erdnase.

This new, over-size book was triggered by the discovery of more than 160 long-lost photographs of Dai Vernon’s hands that were taken in 1961 specifically to illustrate this manuscript. It is as close as you will ever get to a personal session with the Professor.

THE BOOK INCLUDES
A facsimile reproduction of the entire, original typed Revelation manuscript.

The entire text of The Expert at the Card Table with Vernon’s annotations inserted at the appropriate places illustrated with the newly discovered photos of Dai Vernon’s hands.

Plus more than 100 pages of added material including Vernon’s explanation (with photos) of Topping the Deck, Walter Scott’s Second Deal and Double Belly Cut, the Ping Pong Shift, The Hop, Allen Kennedy’s legendary Center Deal and more.

Pages: 392 – 9″ x 11.5″ – Hardcover – The book bound in green cloth and stamped with copper foil, and the beautiful dustjacket were designed by Michael Albright.

Contents:

Publishers Note …. 1
Designing Revelation …. 5
Introduction …. 11
Revelation, Original Manuscript …. 27
Revelation …. 79
Introduction …. 81
Card Table Artifice …. 83
Uniformity of Action …. 85
The Erdnase System ofBlind Shuffles …. 87
Blind Shuffles 88
Blind Riffles 90
Push Through and Pull Out Shuffles …. 92
Pull Through Shuffle …. 94
Blind Cuts …. 98
Cut to Retain the Complete Stock …. 100
To Retain the Top Stock …. 101
To Retain the Bottom Stock …. 104
Combinations of Riffles and Cuts …. 105
Fancy Blind Cuts …. 106
One- Handed Fancy True Cut …. 107
1. To Indicate the Location for the Cut …. 108
11. Location by the Jog …. 109
III. Location by the Crimp …. 110
IV. Location by the Single Jog …. 111
Bottom Dealing …. 112
Top and Bottom Dealing with One Hand …. 114
The Second Deal …. 115
The Second Deal, Another Method …. 118
Stocking, Locating and Securing …. 120
Stock Shuffle …. 122
Erdnase System of Stock Shuffling …. 124
The Erdnase System of Cull Shuffling …. 130
The Erdnase System of Palming …. 133
Bottom Palm …. 138
Replacing Bottom Palm …. 140
Bottom Palm When Cards Are Riffled …. 141
Shifts …. 144
Two- Handed Shift …. 145

The Erdnase Shift, One Hand 148
The Erdnase Shift, Two Hands 150
To Ascertain the Top Cards While Riffling and Reserve Them
at Bottom …. 151
The Player Without an Ally …. 155
Three Card Monte …. 158
Mexican Monte …. 165
Legerdemain …. 167
Introduction …. 169
Shifts, The Charlier Shift 171
The Longitudinal Shift 172
The Open Shift 173
The S.w.E. Shift 174
The Diagonal Palm Shift …. 176
Forcing 182
Palming 184
The Back Palm …. 185
Changes, The Top Change …. 186
The Bottom Change …. 187
The Palm Change …. 188
The Double Palm Change …. 189
Transformations, Two Hands …. 190
Transformations, Two Hands, Second Method …. 192
Transformations, Two Hands, Third, Fourth and Fifth Methods …. 193
Transformations, Two Hands, Sixth Method 194
Transformations, One Hand, First Method 195
Transformations, One Hand, Second Method …. 196
Blind Shuffles, Retaining Entire Order …. 198
Blind Shuffles, Retaining Entire Order, First Method …. 199
Blind Shuffles, Retaining Entire Order, Second Method 200
Blind Shuffles, Retaining Entire Order, Third Method 201
Blind Shuffles, Retaining Entire Order, Fourth Method 202
Blind Shuffles, Retaining Entire Order, Fifth Method 203
Methods for Determining a Card Thought Of …. 204
Methods for Determining a Card Thought Of, Method A 205
Methods for Determining a Card Thought Of, Method B 206
Methods for Determining a Card Thought Of, Method C 207
Methods for Determining a Card Thought Of, Method D 208

To Get Sight of Selected Card …. 209
The Slide …. 210
Favorite Sleights for Terminating Tricks …. 211
Card Tricks, Introduction …. 212
The Exclusive Coterie …. 214
The Divining Rod 216
The Invisible Flight 218
Tricks with the Prearranged Deck …. 219
The Traveling Cards 222
The Row ofTen Cards 224
The Acrobatic Jacks …. 226
A Mind- Reading Trick …. 228
Power of Concentrated Thought …. 229
The Acme of Control …. 230
The Card and Handkerchief …. 231
The Top and Bottom Production …. 232
The Three Aces …. 234
The Card and Hat …. 235
Present Day Developments 237
Introductory Remarks 239
The Cull Riffle ofthe Mysterious Kid …. 240
The Block Transfer and Some Applications …. 24
Toying with the Discard …. 244
Stud Poker-Riffle Run-up …. 245
Hole Card Switches 246
The Blackjack Switch 248
Ways and Means 250
The Cassino Mitt 251
The Drunken Mitt 252
The Tear-Up …. 256
The Double Discard 257
The Row ofTen Cards 258
A Few Tips …. 260
The Spread …. 263
Original Manuscript …. 264
Directions …. 266
Original Manuscript …. 270
Directions …. 274

Cull and Stock …. 279
Letter to Faucett Ross, August 30, 1963 …. 280
Directions …. 286
Original Manuscript Typewritten Notes …. 288
The Hop …. 291
Original Manuscript …. 292
The Hop CA New and Practical Method) …. 294
The Vernon Palm …. 297
The Allen Kennedy Center Deal …. 303
Faucett Ross’ Letter to T. Nelson Downs 303
The Myth, Bald Article, December 1954 309
The Reality (Directions) …. 323
The Allen Kennedy Center Deal Revisited …. 329
Phantoms at the Card Table …. 337
The Ping Pong Shift …. 347
Perfect the Good 361
Never Too Young 371
Photographs …. 376

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