Revelations (Dai Vernon)

Description

This is a pre-owned book. Excellent like-new condition inside and out! Some very fine and light scratches to the front of the dust jacket. A Magical Publication; pages: 224; Location: Pasadena, CA, USA; Edited by: Persi Diaconis; Dimensions: 9″x7″; Date: 1984; Binding: hardbound.

In a book devoted to card table artifice, it should not be out of place to discuss “odds,” and the odds of this book being created at all are astounding. In the entire history of gambling and entertaining with playing cards, one book stands high above all others. First published in 1902 by a shadowy figure writing under the name S.W. Erdnase, The Expert at the Card Table has become the absolute masterwork on the manipulation of playing cards. One man remembers when this book was first published and has spent eight decades studying its fine points. Dai Vernon, or the Professor as he is known to his thousands of friends and students around the world, is the one person who is most qualified to accurately annotate this classic textbook. And annotate it he did…nearly twenty-five years ago. What became of that treasured manuscript for those many years could well be the subject of another book. Suffice it to say, here it is in its entirety…REVELATIONS.

Details: Edited and Introduced by Persi Diaconis. Illustrated by Greg Manwaring. A page by page annotation of the Erdnase book – The Expert at the Card Table. The book is designed to lay open and stay open for easy study. The left side of each page is a facsimile of the original Expert at the Card Table page. The right side of each page is filled with Vernon’s Revelations.

Contents:

i Introduction (Persi Diaconis)
xi Preface

1 The Expert at the Card Table – Revelations: pages 1 through 205

207 Present Day Developments
208 Riffle Shuffles
208 Pull Out Shuffle
208 Push Through Shuffle
211 The Block Transfer and Some Applications
212 The Cull Riffle of the Mysterious Kid
214 Toying With the Discard
215 Stud Poker – Riffle Run-Up
215 Hole Card Switches
217 The Stud Poker Switch
218 Ways and Means
219 The Casino Mitt
220 The Tear-up
221 The Double Discard
221 The Row of Ten Cards
222 A Few Tips