Csuri, Frank. The Csuri Notes [Original Typescripts]. 1960s. Being the original typewritten transcriptions of Csuri's famous notebooks collecting the unpublished and published magic effects of Dai Vernon, Paul Fox, Charlie Miller (including many entries on Malini's magic), Faucett Ross, Bill Woodfield, and Dr. Jacob Daley. Profusion of hand-drawn illustrations. Approximately 3,000 pages of text, typed rectos only, housed in twelve thick 4to volumes, approximately one third in binders as collected by Csuri, the balance neatly organized in black ring binders. One volume being Csuri's collection of Nelson Hahne cartoons (facsimiles); another his transcription of "The Vernon Touch" columns from Genii. The Daley Notebooks inscribed and signed: "To my good friend Jeff Busby; These are the tricks that were in Daley's notebooks loaned to me by Dai Vernon and subsequently published by Karl Fulves. I hope that you enjoy having this original manuscript. Frank Csuri." Three handwritten pages by Dai Vernon, correcting Csuri's transcription, accompany this volume. A unique set of documents. Should be seen. Csuri (1911 - 94), immigrated to America from Hungary with his family as a child and became a successful night club magician by early adulthood, but spent most of his professional life working as an engineer. He began the project of transcribing (and deciphering, some would say) the tricks and methods of Dai Vernon and Dr. Jacob Daley recorded in their letters and notebooks in the 1960s. Later, he compiled the works of Paul Fox, Faucett Ross, and Charlie Miller in the same way. The resulting record fills thousands of pages, chronicling countless secrets - many of them unpublished - from magic's "inner circle." Only the Daley notes and a portion of the Ross manuscript were released in book form. Copies of these works circulated the magic "underground" for decades and came to be known as the "Csuri Notes." A close friend of Jeff Busby's, he willed the original typescripts of these works - and all of his other magic-related material - to Busby.