Thurston, Howard: 100 Tricks You Can Do ©1912 Howard Thurston Softcover, saddle-stitched, 124 pages ©1931 C. Arthur Pearson Ltd., London Hardcover

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Comments: 13 illustrations. Note, I've seen some references that state the original was 1912.

Contents: (Courtesy Dietrich Keller, magicbooks.be)

15 Introduction

19 Ball Tricks
-1 The Appearing Ball
-2 The Vanishing Ball
-3 The Diminishing Ball
-4 The Self-Rolling Ball
-5 The Aerial Ball
-6 Balanced Golf Balls
-7 The Mysterious Ball
-8 The Ball Tube

27 Card Tricks
-1 The "One-Way" Pack
-2 The Pencil-Mark Pack
-3 Pointed Cards
-4 The Double Card
-5 The Short Card
-6 The Bent Corner
-7 False Shuffling (Three Methods)
-8 Cut to the Card
-9 The Spelling Trick
-10 The Wise Queen
-11 The Four-Ace Trick
-12 The X-Ray Card Case
-18 The Colour-Changing Pack

45 Cigar And Cigarette Tricks
-1 Cigar from Pocket-book
-2 Disappearing Cigar Band
-3 Cigar Balanced on Hat
-4 The Revolving Cigar
-5 The Reversing Cigarette

49 Coin Tricks
-1 Match-box Coin Vanish
-2 Coin in Ball of Wool
-3 Ring and Vanishing Coin
-4 The "Wisenheimer" Coin Trick
-5 Three Appearing Coins
-6 The Fade-away Coin
-7 The Whirlaway Coin
-8 The Changing Coin
-9 Odd and Even
-10 The Coin on the floor
-11 A Coin Box
-12 The Coin in the Knot

60 Dice And Domino Tricks
-1 The Magnetic Dice
-2 Naming the Total
-3 The End Numbers
-4 The Incomplete Game
-5 Sixteen Dominoes
-6 Totalling Three Dice

65 Egg Tricks
-1 The Balanced Egg (Three Methods)
-2 Spinning an Egg
-3 The Floating Egg
-4 Eggs, Spools, and Glasses
-5 Egg to Confetti

69 Handkerchief Tricks
-1 The Balanced Handkerchief
-2 The Doubling Knot
-3 The Appearing Knot
-4 Non-Burning Handkerchief
-5 The Draw-away Knot

75 Liquid Tricks
-1 Ink to Water
-2 Water to Ink
-8 Water to Wine
-4 Wine to Water
-5 Two Goblets
-6 Wine and Water (Without Chemicals)
-7 Disappearing Water

81 Match Tricks
-1 Four Triangles
-2 The Vanishing Matches
-3 Monte with Matches
-4 Cutting through a Match-box
-5 Appearing Matches
-6 Penetrating Matches
-7 The Missing Light
-8 Mystic Safety Matches
-9 The Match Square
-10 Lighted Match from Pocket

89 Paper Tricks
-1 The Torn and Restored Cigarette Paper
-2 The Restored Paper Napkin
-3 The Celebrity Trick
-4 The Three Paper Balls
-5 The Balls and the Hats
-6 Breaking the Crayon
-7 The Tough Napkin
-8 The Paper Bridge
-9 The Magic Number
-10 The Marked Paper

103 Pencil Tricks
-1 The Magnetic Pencil
-2 The "Vanishing" Pencil
-3 Turn-about Pencil
-4 Naming the Suit
-5 Pencil from Pocketbook

107 Ring Tricks
-1 The Phantom Ring
-2 The Improved Phantom Ring
-3 Ring Tied on String
-4 The Ring on the Finger
-5 The Ring and String
-6 The Released Rings

112 Spirit Tricks
-1 The Taped Slates
-2 The Three Spirit Slates
-3 The Spirit Name
-4 The Spirit Hand
-5 Contact Telepathy?
-6 Reading Sealed Message
-7 Improved Envelope Test
-8 The Great Rope Tie

128 Conclusion