Ben, David: Dai Vernon, a Biography ©2006 David Ben, Magicana, Toronto, Ontario Hardcover, w/dj, 360 pages ISBN: 0-9780675-0-9

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Comments: "Artist, Magician, Muse, 1894-1941".

Contents (Chapters, from book ToC):

1 Railroads and Steamboats
31 Artifice, Ruse and Subterfuge
64 The Man Who Fooled Houdini
99 Inner Circles
131 Shadows With Shears
161 Phantoms of the Card Table
196 Centers and Secrets
230 Midway to Manhattan
263 Over the Rainbow
299 Mercury Falling

334 End Notes
339 Sources
342 Bibliography
356 Acknowledgements
358 Index