Thurston, Howard: My Life of Magic ©1929 Howard Thurston, Pub. Dorrance & Co., Inc., PA Hardcover, 275 pages

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Contents:

xiii Prologue
17 Chapter I The Man of My Destiny
22 Chapter II Shorty and Big Jim
39 Chapter III Old Aunt Jenny
44 Chapter IV Home and Mr. Hermon
54 Chapter V Fate Casts the Die
58 Chapter VI The Wizard of the North
67 Chapter VII The Courage of Youth
76 Chapter VIII The Making of a Magician
84 Chapter IX My First Invention
90 Chapter X The Man That Mystified Herrmann
102 Chapter XI The Man from Nowhere
109 Chapter XII Card Kings and Real Kings
124 Chapter XIII Sailing into the Unknown
132 Chapter XIV A Game of Bluff
141 Chapter XV Under the Southern Cross
148 Chapter XVI An Adventure in Hongkong
157 Chapter XVII The Stone House in Macao
165 Chapter KVIII In a Hongkong Theatre
172 Chapter XIX The Sultan of Surakarta
181 Chapter XX The Burmese Wedding
187 Chapter XXI Magicians of India
201 Chapter XXII The Theatre in Calcutta
208 Chapter XXIII A Four-Car Magic Circus
218 Chapter XXIV My Year with Kellar
229 Chapter XXV The End of a Career
230 Chapter XXVI The Kingdom of Dreams
242 Chapter XXVII Magic in War Time
251 Chapter XXVIII Magic Diversified
258 Chapter XXIX The President's Watch
264 Chapter XXX The Magic Business
271 Epilogue