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- The Vernon Chronicles Volume One: The Lost Inner Secrets, Stephen Minch, 1987, 1st Edition, cloth bound with gilt stamping, 235 pages, illustrations and photos. Contents: On the Turn of a Card, Enlarging a Break, The Vernon All-Around Square-Up, Glimpse from the Twirl Cut, Hindu Transportation, No Sleight Triumph, The Second Campaign, The Persistence-of-Vision Coin Vanish and more. Condition light spotting to cover, light foxing to rear flyleaf. Very fine.
- The Vernon Chronicles Volume Two: More Lost Inner Secrets, Stephen Minch, 1988, 1st Edition, cloth bound with gilt stamping, 245 pages, illustrations and photos. Contents: Dual to the Death, Aces to Order, The Daivergent Silk, The Trick that Cannot be Reconstructed, The Rendezvous Force, Driven to the Depths, Vernon on Gilbreath, Max Malini's Hypnotic Gaze Divination and more. Condition light foxing to page edges and front and rear flyleaves. Very fine. *Includes a letter attached to inside front dust jacket from Trost to the publisher of the books requesting certain material to be published in further editions of the Chronicles!*
- The Vernon Chronicles Volume Three: Further Lost Inner Secrets, Stephen Minch, 1989, 1st Edition, cloth bound with gilt stamping, 219 pages, illustrations and photos. Contents: Subway Gambler's Palm, Flat Top Switch, Spellatron, Joker Monte, On Your Metal, Arthur Finley's Remote Control, Think-of-a-Card Solitaire, Faucett Ross' Twice Turned, The Contortion Palm, The Spring-Loaded Tip-Over Change, Black's Stack and more. Condition spotting on cover top, light foxing to page edges and front and rear flyleaves. Very fine.
- The Vernon Chronicles Volume Four: He Fooled Houdini - Dai Vernon, A Magical Life, Bruce Cervon and Keith Burns, 1992, 1st Edition, cloth bound with gilt stamping, 308 pages with index, photos. Contents: I Try to Fly and Other Early Memories, My Father and My First Magic Tricks, My First Playing Cards, "You Should be an Engineer", My Brother Napier and the Army, New York's Magic Shops, Jeanne Comes into My Life, Women in Magic, My First Professional Engagement, Mr. Harry Houdini and Madame Houdin, Sawing a Woman in Half in Cuba, Vernon in Print, Simple Ideas Drive People Crazy and more aspects of Vernon's life. Condition spotting on cover top, light foxing to page edges and front and rear flyleaves. Very fine.
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