The Joyal Index:

1st edition 2004, limited to 100 copies,
5 in. x 8 in., soft cover, spiral bound, 142 p.

You can’t remember where THAT card trick is… It was a Cutting the Aces effect and you’re sure it was in one of the Vernon books. But which one? The Joyal Index has the answer!

For over a decade, author and magician Martin Joyal has researched and catalogued card effects in hundreds of magic books written between 1584 and 2000—organizing the content by source, title, creator, effect, type of deck, special cards, accessories, etc. V as in Vernon is the first volume of a massive index of card magic. This premiere volume includes 555 items and nearly 300 cross-references, indexed from more than 80 books.

Within these pages, you will find items related to the card magic of Paul Valadon, Jean-Pierre Vallarino, George Vaughn, Bob Veeser, Zigeuner Verdad, Dai Vernon, Edward Victor, Les Vincent, Michael Vincent, Richard Vollmer, and Jack Vosburgh.

The Joyal Index: V as in Vernon is an essential reference work for performing magicians expanding and refining their repertoires, writers and historians tracking down accurate credits, or any magic enthusiast who is trying to remember the name and origin of THAT trick!

In P as in Ponsin, you will find 555 items originated by:

These items were extracted from the following books:

• J.P. Vallarino: Close-Up Man (totally indexed, 12 items)
• Ten Card Problems (totally indexed, 11 items)
• Five Close Up Problems (totally indexed, 3 items)
• Dai Vernon's Select Secrets (totally indexed, 6 items)
• Dai Vernon Pet Effects: No. 1 of a Series (totally indexed, 1 item)
• The Dai Vernon Book of Magic (totally indexed, 13 items)
• Dai Vernon’s Inner Secrets of Card Magic (totally indexed, 34 items)
• Dai Vernon's More Inner Secrets of Card Magic (totally indexed, 11 items)
• Dai Vernon's Further Inner Secrets of Card Magic (totally indexed, 12 items)
• Early Vernon (totally indexed, 24 items)
• Dai Vernon’s Expanded Lecture Notes (10 items)
• Dai Vernon's Ultimate Secrets of Card Magic (totally indexed, 44 items)
• Dai Vernon: The First California Lecture (2 items)
• Revelations (totally indexed, 20 items)
• The Vernon Chronicles, Volume 1: The Lost Inner Secrets (totally indexed, 14 items)
• The Vernon Chronicles, Volume 2: More Lost Inner Secrets (totally indexed, 42 items)
• The Vernon Chronicles, Volume 3: Further Lost Inner Secrets (totally indexed, 26 items)
• Magic of the Hands (totally indexed, 7 items)
• More Magic of the Hands (totally indexed, 10 items)
• Further Magic of the Hands (totally indexed, 20 items)
• More Than A Trick (totally indexed, 13 items)
• and 62 other books (220 items)

Above all, there are more than 298 cross-references.