Thomas, Frazier: Professional Tricks for Amateur Magicians ©1939 Reader Mail, Inc., Softcover, saddle-stitched, 5x7.25", 32 pages

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Comments: Illustrated with only two diagrams. "HERE are 42 mystifying tricks which any amateur Thurston can perform in his own living-room." Number 179 in the "Home Service Booklets" series. A series of mostly beginner's magic tricks

Contents:

1 Introduction
2 A Few Magic Words

2 Tricks Using Coins
2 Coin-Go: a coin vanishes from under a tumbler, goes through the table into another tumbler underneath
3 The Penetrating Coin: as coins are dropped on a plate, the quarter passes through
4 The Invisible Coin: optical illusion
4 The Dissolving Coin: coin vanishes when dropped in a glass of water
5 Juggling Coins: balancing two coins between the fingertips
6 The Contrary Coins: a 50 cent piece and quarter tranpose in a handkerchief
6 Another Vanishing Coin: using a gimmicked coin
7 The Traveling Coin: coin travels from under right foot to left   

8 Tricks of Mental Magic
8 Tag-It: magician determines which of three tags is placed behind her back
8 The Divining Dice: magician determines total of three dice seen by spectator
9 The Teacup Tells: a confederate trick
10 X-Ray Eyes: magician tells name of selected card in a card case
10 The Mysterious Colored Crayons: magician tells color of crayon in a tube behind his back

11 Tricks With Cigars and Cigarettes
11 The Acrobatic Cigar: borrowed cigar is balanced on a borrowed hat
12 The Rising Cigarette: cig rises out of pack
12 The Cigarette Smoke: smoke forms from an unlit cigarette in a jar, a chemical trick
13 The Vanishing Cigar Band: cigar band vanishes as cigar is waved

14 Tricks With Glass Tumblers
14 The Spirit Drinks: liquid vanishes from a glass in the dark
14 Vani-Tration: glass vanishes under a paper cone

15 Tricks With Matches
15 Doing the Impossible: match is lit on the shoe
16 Magnetic Match-ic: matchbox turned upside down but matches don't fall
16 Smack-It: matchbox smackedon spinning dime causes dime to vanish
17 You-Find-It: spectator can't find one of three matchboxes that has matches in it

18 Card Tricks
18 Cops and Robbers: The Jacks capture the robber card
20 Weighing a Card (Howard Thurston): the magician "weighs" a selection, and then picks it out of a bunch by its weight
20 The Phantom Cards: Two cards are placed into the center of the deck but are immediately found on top

21 Miscellaneous Tricks
21 The Tailor's Nightmare: a comedy gag interlude
22 Magic Multiplication: two balls multiply to three in the hand
22 The Color Changing Balloon: balloon changes color in a burst
23 The Whistle Talks: a whistle blows yes or no answers; uses a confederate
24 The Magic Snowstorm: Egg turns to confetti
25 Gold-O: one golf ball balances on top of the other
26 Two-For-One: a sensory illusion
26 The Windy Cork: blowing a small cork into a bottle stunt
27 The Vanishing Sugar: lump of sugar vanishes in a napkin ring
27 The Floating Sugar: in a cup of coffee
28 The Dissatisfied Egg: egg hops from one cup to the other
29 Knife-O: a table knife vanishes in a napkin
29 The EGGStraordinary Egg: magician is able to spin an egg on its end
30 The Missing Pea: the shell game using a pea, thimbles, and paper cones
30 Magical Magnetism: physical stunt
31 Aladdin's Handkerchief: a dime appears in a folded handkerchief