Csuri, Frank. The Magic of Dai Vernon. Circa 1970. Over 400 pages, original typescript, in two 8vo comb bound volumes. Profusion of original sketched illustrations. Original pencil sketch portraits of Vernon (presumably by Csuri) on each cover. The first volume inscribed and signed: "To Jeff Busby, my friend, this book and its companion on misc magic is how I met Dai and gained his confidence to let me have the Daley note books. Faucett Ross showed these note books to Dai and said "Here is a fellow who typed everything you published" and as a result Dai trusted me to transcribe the Daley notes. Sincerely, Frank Csuri." Frank Csuri dedicated untold hours to the study of sleight-of-hand and its modern masters: Dai Vernon, Charlie Miller, Paul Fox, S. Leo Horowitz, Dr. Jacob Daley - the legendary "inner circle." As the Kellar-Thurston-Houdini-Blackstone era of stage magic began a steady decline, it was this group that shaped much of the magic world's interest in conjuring. Csuri's first project was a complete transcription of the published record of Dai Vernon's inventions, as evidenced by the inscription in this manuscript. From there, he went on to transcribe the tricks and letters of other members of Vernon's circle, guided often by Faucett Ross and other friends. The resulting massive body of work was the stuff of underground legend - a series of private manuscripts sold, traded, copied, and circulated among a select few magicians and students of sleight-of-hand. Later, however, word of Csuri's work gained wider circulation when Karl Fulves published the Daley Notebooks.