Temple, Phil: Thurston the Magician - Our Life of Magic ©1989 Phil Temple Hardcover, 8.75x11.25", 225 pages

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Comments: From the Dustjacket: "Temple presents what is destined to be the most desirable of all published works on Howard Thurston. Purchasing the original copyright papers and several of the original typed manuscript chapters from the 1929 publication, Temple contacted Mrs. Jane Thurston Shepard for her blessing and cooperation in republishing the Thurston book, "My Life of Magic." Not only did Mrs. Shepard agree to the proposal, she offered her unpublished manuscript of her own life with Howard Thurston for the project, thus, Our Life of Magic came into being."

Contents (from book ToC):

xii Prologue

1 I The Man of My Destiny
3 II Shorty and Big Jim
11 III Old Aunt Jenny
13 IV Home and Mt Hermon
19 V Fate Casts the Die

21 VI The Wizard of the North
27 VII The Courage of Youth
31 VIII The Making of a Magician
35 IX My First Invention
39 X The Man That Mystified Herrmann

45 XI The Man From Nowhere
49 XII Card Kings and Real Kings
57 XIII Sailing Into the Unknown
63 XIV A Game of Bluff
69 XV Under the Southern Cross

73 XVI An Adventure in Hongkong
77 XVII The Stone House in Macao
81 XVIII In a Hongkong Theatre
85 XIX The Sultan of Surakarta
91 XX The Burmese Wedding

95 XXI Magicians of India
103 XXII The Theatre in Calcutta
107 XXIII A Four-Car Magic Circus
113 XXIV My Year with Kellar
119 XXV The End of a Career

121 XXVI The Kingdom of Dreams
127 XXVII Magic in War Time
133 XXVIII Magic Diversified
137 XXIX The President's Watch
139 XXX The Magic Business

143 Epilogue

147 Part Two
147 My Life of Magic (Jane Thurston)

201 Part Three
201 XXXII Thurston Scrapbook (Robert E. Olson & Phil Temple)