Dai Vernon – Revelations

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This is a scan of the 1984 edition of Dai Vernon’s Revelations, the Professor’s annotations of S.W. Erdnase’s “Expert at the Card Table.”

At the outset, it should be noted there is one page missing from this book: the first page of the Erdnase introduction. That cannot be helped…the original files from which the book was produced didn’t include page one of the Erdnase introduction. (The missing page can be found in any edition of EATCT, which is widely available.)

All the rest of the book is there, from Persi Diaconis’s excellent & illuminating introduction to the “Present Day Developments” – advanced card handling techniques Vernon picked up or developed over the years.

For those unfamiliar with the book, Expert at the Card Table is reproduced in its entirety (less that first page of the introduction) on double-wide pages, with Vernon’s observations printed in the outer margins surrounding each EATCT page. Vernon doesn’t offer commentary on every single item in Erdnase, but when he does, it is exceptionally worthwhile. Vernon’s thoughts appear adjacent to the material in EATCT under consideration for easier study. (Vernon offered no commentary on Erdnase’s introduction, so you’re not missing anything with that one page absent.)