Thurston, Howard: Fooling the World (Fooling Millions) ©1928 Howard Thurston, Pfeiffer Press, OH Softcover, saddle-stitched, 6x9", 96 pages

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Comments: Note: the cover on some editions state, "Fooling the World", but the inside title is "Fooling Millions". A collection of articles and over 100 B&W photos of Thurston's magic, as well as sections on "Easy Pocket Tricks", Dreams, Numerology, and Fortune Telling.

Contents:

3 Preface: John Northern Hilliard
4 The Howard Thurston Family: photos
5 Thurston’s Life Story: B&W photo illustrated
11 Thurston's Magic Circles the Globe
14 Thurston's Inventions Benefit Humanity
17 Some Thrilling Adventures
17 - Magic in the Secret Service
19 - My Performance at the White House

21 Easy Pocket Tricks
21 The Broken Pencil
21 The Thieves and the Sheep
22 The Balanced Egg
24 The Balancing Match
24 The Watch From the Handkerchief
25 Magnetized Matches
25 The Ring and the Knot
26 A Mathematical Mystery
26 The Multiplying Coins
26 The Disappearing Knot
27 The Released Ring
27 The Appearing Coin
28 The Fall Away Ring
28 Coin And Match Box
29 Dry Hands
29 The Spinning Egg
29 The Spirit Name
30 Finding Chosen Coin
30 Orange to Apple
30 Naming Chosen Fruit
30 The Mummified Finger
31 Floating Lumb of Sugar
31 Spirit Writing

34 Famous Magicians
35 Thurston, Dante, Tampa

36 Thurston’s Astrological Charts

45 The Thurston Lucky Charm

46 Signification of Dreams
46 Dictionary of Dreams: A to K
52 How Jane Thurston Was Trained for Stardom (Ned Wayburn)
54 Dictionary of Dreams: L-Z

64 Thurston Entertains Crippled Children

65 Numerology, the Interpretation of Numbers
67 Charts One Through Nine

77 The Thurston Relief Fund

82 Fortune Telling With Cards
82 The Meaning of the Cards

86 Ned Wayburn
91 Books on Magic by Thurston the Magician
93 Thurston As an Author