Thurston, Howard: Howard Thurston's Card Tricks
©1903 Henry J. Wehman, I&M Ottenheimer, Pub, MD
Softcover, perfect-bound, 5.5x8.5", 82 pages

Comments: There were many editions of this book. So many that in 1991 David Meyer even wrote a 46 page book on the many editions, entitled, "Howard Thurston's card tricks: An illustrated and descriptive checklist of various editions covering a 50 year period"

Contents:

1 CHAPTER I A Few Incidents in the Life or Howard Thurston
3 Hermann The Great Mystified by Thurston
5 San Francisco Examiner March 27th 1899
6 New York World August 21st 1890
8 The King of Cards

10 CHAPTER II Indispensable Sleights
10 The Pass
13 The Force
15 The Change
16 The Ordinary Palm

19 CHAPTER III The Continuous Front and Back Hand Palm, with Cards and Tricks in Connection Therewith
24 The Disappearance of Five Cards One at a Time
26 The Production of Cards One at a Time at the Finger-Tips From the Back-Hand Palm
30 The Production of Cards at the Finger-Tips from the Ordinary Palm
33 Passing a Card Through the Knees, Etc.

38 CHAPTER IV The Thurston System of Expert Card Manipulation
43 First Method
44 Second Method
46 To Instantly Name any Card Chosen
47 To Tell the Names of Any Number of Cards Chosen
49 To Tell the Exact Position in the Pack of Any Card Named by the Audience
52 Mind Over Mind or the Marvelous Will Power
54 To Cause a Card Selected by a Spectator to be Named by the Audience
57 A New Mind-Reading Feat With Cards

59 CHAPTER V An Entirely New and Original Collection of Miscellaneous Card Tricks, Including the Correct Method or Performing Thurston's New Rising Cards
59 An Incomprehensible Divination
62 A Mechanical Card for the Back Hand Palm
66 A Card Caught on the Corner of a Borrowed Handkerchief
69 The Thurston Method of Throwing Cards
70 Tricks for the Novice
70 - A Pack of Cards Changed to Two Large Balls
71 - New Card and Egg Mystery
73 - Disappearance of a Card Thought of By a Spectator
74 - The Electric Cards
75 The Thurston Rising Cards

82 Final Remarks




Former owner's sticker, William R. Morrall on top right corner of cover. This is an early edition of the book by Thurston. It had been stab stapled as issued, but a former owner has carefully removed the staples. This has made the book easier to go through, as all the pages now lie flat for viewing and reading. It has loose portions of signatures, BUT all pages are here in Fine Condition.

SIZE: 5 1/4 by 7 3/4 inches, 83 pages with light paper covers.



CONDITION: Stab staples were removed by former owner. Some portions of signatures therefore loose, but all here and all readable. Printed on pulp paper with even age toning. Interior pages are in Very Fine Condition, with virtually no wear. Covers had splits, repaired with archival tissue tape.