Thurston, Howard: 300 Tricks You Can Do ©1948 Howard Thurston, Comet Books, NY Softcover, perfect-bound, 5.5x8.5", 239 pages plus ads

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Comments: Illustrated by Ruth McCrea. "The tricks in this book have been selected from two books published originally under the titles 200 TRICKS YOU CAN DO and 200 MORE TRICKS YOU CAN DO. This book is published by arrangement with Garden City Publishing Company, Inc."

Contents (from book):

xi Introduction

1 Chapter I Ball Tricks
1 The Appearing Ball
2 The Vanishing Ball
2 The Diminishing Ball
3 The Aerial Ball
4 Balanced Golf Balls
4 The Mysterious Ball
5 The Ball Tube

7 Chapter II Card Tricks
8 The “One-Way” Pack
9 Pointed Cards
10 The Pencil-Mark Pack
10 Another Way to Find a Chosen Card
10 The Double Card
11 The Short Card
12 The Bent Corner
12 False Shuffling
15 Cut to the Card
15 The Spelling Trick
17 The Wise Queen
19 The X-Ray Cardcase
20 The Color-Changing Card
20 The Color-Changing Pack
22 The Three Jacks
22 The Card in the Pocket
23 The Turn-up Card
24 The Burglars
25 Kings and Queens
27 The Automatic Rising Card
28 The Card on the Hand
28 The Spirit Card
31 The Reversing Card
32 An Amazing Discovery
33 The Traveing Ace
34 Finding a Chosen Card
34 Maltese Crosses
35 A Mysterious Coincidence
36 A Card Through the Plate
37 An Easy Four Ace Trick
39 The Paddle Trick
40 Telephone Telepathy
42 Card and Coin Trick
42 The Mysterious Joker
43 Card Changing Under Foot
43 The Circle of Cards
44 The Rosette
45 Rising Card from Case
45 Revealing the Card
46 Two Packets
47 Red and Black
47 Forcing a Card
48 A Surprise

49 Chapter III Checker Tricks
49 The Magic Knock-out
50 A Checker Trick
51 Making Kings
51 Tire Color Changing Checker
52 Moving the Checkers
52 Eleven or Twelve?
53 Nine or Ten?
54 Right and Lett
55 A Trick with a Checkerboard
56 Picking Out the Black
56 Changing Checkers
57 The Vanishing Checker

59 Chapter IV Coin Tricks
59 Match Box Coin Vanish
59 Coin in Ball of Wool
60 Ring and Vanishing Coin
61 The “Wisenheimer” Coin Trick
61 Three Appearing Coins
62 The Whirl-away Coin
63 The Changing Coin
64 The Multiplying Coins
64 Odd and Even
65 The Coin on the Door
65 A Coin Box
66 Where Is the Coin?
67 Coin Vanishes from Hands
67 Coin Through the Table
68 Heads and Tails
70 Heads or Fails
70 The Coin in the Knot
71 “Vanishing” Coin from Handkerchiefs
72 A Coin Joke
72 A Quick Coin Vanish
73 The Talking Coin
74 Box and Coin Trick
74 The Coin at the Elbow
75 An Appearing Coin
75 A Balanced Coin
76 The Coin On the Forehead
76 The Bouncing Coin
76 An Obedient Coin
77 Traveling Coin
77 Coin and Pins
78 Coins from Elbow
78 A Coin Disappearance
79 Five Coin Problem
79 Coin from Glass
80 A Coin Catch
80 Vanishing Money
81 Coin and Tumbler
81 Coin Through Table
82 Snatching the Coin
83 A Quick Coin Vanish
84 He Thinks He Has It!
85 Both Sides
85 Coin, Tube and Paper
85 The Paper and the Coin
86 Guessing the Date
86 Heads Up!
87 Coin Through Elandkerchief
88 The Hidden Coin
88 Coin On the Wrist
89 Odd Or Even?
89 The Four Coin Trick

91 Chapter V Cork Tricks
91 The Bouncing Cork
91 Upright Corks
92 Two Corks
93 Cork and Bottle
94 Adhesive Corks
94 Removing the Cork
95 The Improved Multiplying Corks

96 Chapter VI Dice and Domino Tricks
96 The Magnetic Dice
96 Naming the Total
97 The End Numbers
98 The Incomplete Game
98 Sixteen Dominoes
99 Totaling Three Dice

100 Chapter VII Hand Tricks
100 The Mummified Finger
101 The Extended Finger
101 Eleven Fingers
102 The Removable Thumb
103 The Detachable Finger
104 Stretching the Thumb
106 Flexible Hands
106 Clapping the Hands
107 An Illusion of Touch
107 Tough Knuckles

108 Chapter VIII Handkerchief Tricks
109 The Balanced Handkerchief
109 The Doubling Knot
110 The Appearing Knot
111 Non-Burning Handkerchief
111 The Flyaway Knot
112 The Draw-Away Knot
113 United and Untied
113 Match in Handkerchief
114 The Fadeaway Knot Trick
115 The Hypnotized Handkerchief
115 The Flying Handkerchief
116 The Perfect Dissolving Knot
117 A Sudden Knot
118 An Escape
119 Handkerchief on the String

120 Chapter IX Liquid Tricks
120 Ink to Water
121 Two Goblets
122 The Balanced Turnbier
122 Disappearing Whiter
123 The Fountain Pencil
123 The Glass anti the Flat
124 The Whirling Glass

126 Chapter X Match Tricks
126 Four Triangles
126 Cutting Through a Match-Box
127 Appearing Matches
128 Gross to Square
129 The Adhesive Match-Box
129 The Standing Match
130 Six and Eleven
130 The Match Square
131 Red and Blue
132 Appearing Paper Matches

133 Chapter XI Miscellaneous Tricks
133 Blowing Through a Bottle
133 The Mystic Cross
134 The Jumping Ruler
134 The Removable String
135 Changing Spools
136 The Ribbon from the Orange
136 The Flower in the Buttonhole
137 The Three Beads
138 A Restored String
138 The Mystic Propeller
139 Pin Through Finger
139 Bottle and Straw
139 Scissors and String
140 The Turnover Key
140 Paper Disks
141 The Magnetic Pencil
141 The Three Marble Trick
143 A Vanishing Pencil
143 The “Vanishing” Pencil
143 Turnabout Pencil
144 Naming the Suit
145 Pencil from Pockctbook
145 Number Six
146 The Watch from the Handkerchief
147 Telling the Time
148 The Mystic Alarm Clock

149 Chapter XII Number Tricks
149 Totaling Twenty
150 Nine Figures
151 Telling the Total
152 The Grand Total
152 Cross Them Out

154 Chapter XIII Optical Tricks
154 The Coin in the Glass
155 Drawing with a Mirror
155 Seeing Through Solid
156 The Snake and the Bird
156 Which Is Larger?
157 A Missing Coin
157 The Appearing Coin
158 Strange Lines
159 Mystic Circles
160 A Ghost

161 Chapter XIV Paper Tricks
161 The Torn and Restored Cigarette Paper
162 The Restored Paper Napkin
163 The Celebrity Trick
164 The Three Paper Balls
166 The Balls and the Hats
168 The Tough Napkin
169 The Paper Bridge
170 The Magic Number
171 The Marked Paper
171 Three Paper Slips
171 The Shower of Paper
173 The Favorite Number
174 Traveling Tissue Paper
175 The Floating Paper Ball
176 A Generous Offer
176 Blow Them Away
177 A Paper Tearing Trick
178 It Looks Easy
179 The Animated Fish
179 The Mystic Name
180 The Magic Blow
180 A Paper Snake
181 Transposed Paper Slips
182 Red, White and Blue
183 The Paper Ribbon Trick
183 The Message On the Card
184 The Paper Ladder
186 Three Cards
187 Penetrating Paper
187 The Paper Bag
188 Multiplying Paper Balls
189 What’s on the Paper?

190 Chapter XV Ring Tricks
190 The Phantom Ring
191 The Improved Phantom Ring
192 Ring Tied On String
192 The Ring and String
193 The Ring on the Finger
193 The Released Rings
194 The “Vanishing” Ring
195 The Ring from the String
196 The Dropping Ring
197 The Cardboard Ring Trick
197 Instantaneous Appearance of Six Rings

199 Chapter XVI Spirit Tricks
200 The Taped Slates
201 The Three Spirit Slates
203 The Spirit Name
203 The Spirit Hand
204 Contact Telepathy
205 Improved Envelope Test
206 Reading Sealed Message
207 The Great Rope Lie
208 Pocket Spirit Slates
209 Single Spirit Slate
210 The Spirit Bell
210 The Spirit Cloth
211 Choosing a Question
212 A Spirit Answer
213 Spirit Table Lifting
214 One Hand Table Lilting
214 A Spirit Question
215 A Spirit Gong
216 Mysterious Answers
216 The Mystic Ring
218 A Clever Slate Writing Trick
218 Mind Reading

220 Chapter XVII Table Tricks
221 The Vanishing Salt-Shaker
222 The Magnetic Knife
223 The Obedient Spoon
223 Vanishing Salt
224 The Enchanted Seed
224 The Orange to the Apple
225 The Vanishing Knife
225 Swallowing a Knife
226 Five Knife Trick
227 The Bridge of Knives

228 Chapter XVIII Thimble Tricks
228 A “Vanishing” Thimble
229 Color-changing Thimble
229 The Jumping Thimble
230 Thimble from Paper
230 Thimble Through Handkerchief
231 Complete Penetration
232 Handkerchief Through Thimble
233 The Tell-Tale Thimbles
234 Red, White and Blue

235 Chapter XIX Tumbler Tricks
235 The Over-full Tumbler
236 A Two-Tumbler Trick
236 Non-breakable Glass
237 The Magnetic Tumbler
237 The Mystic Pointer
238 The Top of the Tumbler
239 A Surprising Detection

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