VERNON’S OWN, SPECIALLY BOUND

[VERNON]. GANSON, Lewis (1...

[VERNON]. GANSON, Lewis (1913 – 80). Dai Vernon’s Ultimate Card Secrets. London: Harry Stanley Unique Magic Studio, ca. 1967. Full red modern leather with spine in compartments; gilt-titled black spine label. Original pictorial dust jacket (damaged). Photographs. 8vo. Corners bumped, else very good. DAI VERNON’S OWN SPECIALLY BOUND BOOK, signed by “The Professor” on the ffep, and then INSCRIBED by Vernon “To my friend Ricky [Jay] / with warmest wishes/ sincerely / Dai Vernon” below the ownership signature. A wonderful association copy and link between two of the great sleight-of-hand magicians of the twentieth century.