Gilbert, A.C.: Mysto Magic Book of Instructions © 1919 A.C. Gilbert Co., CT Softcover, saddle-stitched, 61 pages plus ads

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Comments: Note there are several different books with the similar title "Mysto Magic Book of Instructions", and my understanding is it depended on which magic set the instructions came with.

Contents (from book):

ii A Personal message to Young Magicians (A.C. Gilbert)

1 How to Become a Magician
1 What Magic Is
1 About Practice
2 Misdirection
2 Something to be Remembered
2 If Something Goes Wrong
2 Patter

3 Directions for Working Gilbert Mysto Magic Tricks

4 The Phantom Card Trick: using gimmicked cards
5 The Vanishing Postage Stamp: in a cylindrical box
6 Changing Card: card changes though deck wrapped in bands
7 Papel Blanco: cards become blank in a hat
8 Princess Card Trick: magician removes the mentally selected card from a packet
9 Knockout Card Trick: named card vanishes and is found with the others
10 A Startling Card Trick: card vanishes in a glass
11 The Mysto Jacks: Four Jacks turn to Aces using gimmicked cards
12 Pick-It-Out The Three Card Trick: spectator can't find the Ace, using mis-indexed cards
13 The Indian Beads: three beads magically removed from a string
14 The Phantom Ring: Ring appears on cord tied between the wrists
15 The Diminishing Billiard Ball: using a gimmicked ball
16 Multiplying Billard Balls: using the standard set
18 Chines Ring on String: ring on string
19 The Marble Base: marble vanishes to be found in previously empty vase
20 Vanishing Coin From Glass: spectator drops coin under handkerchief into glass, where coin vanishes
21 The Pass Pass Coin Trick: using coin shells and covers
21 Pass Pass Coin Trick - Small Set
22 The Mysto Vanishing Coin: coin vanishes in the hand
23 The Okeito Coin Box: coin penetrates box and your hand
24 The Invisible Hen: egg and handkerchief effect
26 Mysterious Linking Rings: set of six
28 The Handkerchief Vanisher
29 Handkerchief Casette: handkerchief vanishes from a tube
30 Drum Head Tube: handkerchief vanishes and is found in a tube
31 Odin's Disks: number disk removed from hat matches spectator's chosen number
32 The Siberian Transport Chain: escape from wrist chains
33 The Sphinx Card Trick: one card transposes with two in a hat
34 The Mysto Slate Trick: flap slate

35 The Magician's Cards: a tapered deck
35 To Separate the Red Cards from the Back With One Cut
36 The Four Ace Trick
36 To Find a Selected Card and Number From the Bottom of the Pack
36 To Make a Selected Card Pass Through a Handkerchief
36 The Turned Card
36 To Locate a Number of Selected Cards
37 To Allow All the Cards to Fall Except the Chosen One
37 The Four Kings
37 Additional Tricks

37 The Multiplying Coin: using a shell

38 Tricks Without Apparatus

39 The Multiplying Card Trick: should be titled multiplying bills
39 The Climbing Ring: climbs up a wand
40 The Disappearing Tumbler: glass vanishes under a newspaper
40 The Cut String Restored
41 A Rope Trick: an escape
42 How to Stick a Pin Through Your Head: illusion
42 The Magic Pill: sensory illusion
43 Match In Handkerchief: broken and restored
43 The Hair Pulling Stunt: gag
44 The Magnetized Cards: cling to the hand
44 The Shakers Initiation: gag
45 The Excelsior Rope Tie: escape
46 To Make a Card Vanish From the Pack and Be Found in a Person's Pocket
47 THe Mysterious Paper Rings: often known as the Afghan Bands
48 The Crystal Tunk Mystery: a vanishing stage illusion

50 The Complete One Hour's Entertainment: using the tricks presented above
50 Where To Perform - How to Build a Stage
50 Study the Manual - Be Free and Easy
51 See My Demonstrations
51 How Much to Charge
51 Perparation for the Act
52 Final Caution
53 The Act: complete with patter
53 - Invisible Hen
53 - Multiplying Balls
54 - Multiplying Bills
55 - Glass Through Table
55 - Card Trick
56 - Vanishing Coin in Glass
57 - Handerchief Escape
57 - Ring on Rope
58 - Hypnotism
58 - Vanishing Bill and Handkerchief
59 - Linking Rings
60 - Psychic Gag
60 - Handkerchief Drumhead Tube

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