SYNOPSIS:
Here are over 400 tricks with dice, coins, matches, cards and cigarettes revealed by world-famous magician, Thurston the Great. Each startling trick is simply explained and will baffle and delight your friends.
Originally printed in the 1920s under the titles “200 Tricks You Can Do” and “200 More Tricks You Can Do,” these volumes were later combined into a single book, “400 Tricks You Can Do” before being reformatted once more in a “Revised Edition”.
This new expanded edition, is an unabridged republication that incorporates content from all prior versions including reinstated tricks, remastered illustrations, new illustrations, and amends to text for clarity exclusive to this version.

Book details
Author/Creator: Howard Thurston
Publisher: Blue Ribbon Books
Publication Year: 1940
Type: Instructional
Pages: 186
Skill Level: Beginner
Availability: Out of Print
TABLE OF CONTENTS (VOL. 1)
Introduction (p.I)
I. BALL TRICKS (p.5)
• The Appearing Ball
• The Vanishing Ball
• The Diminishing Ball
• The Self-Rolling Ball
• The Aërial Ball
• Balanced Golf Balls
• The Mysterious Ball
• The Ball Tube
II. CARD TRICKS (p.13)
• The “One-Way” Pack
• The Pencil-Mark Pack
• Pointed Cards
• The Double Card
• The Short Card
• The Bent Corner
• False Shuffling (Three Methods)
• Cut to the Card
• The Spelling Trick
• The Wise Queen
• The Four-Ace Trick
• The X-Ray Card Case
• The Color-Changing Pack
• The Color-Changing Card
• The Three Jacks
• Card at any Number
• The Card in the Pocket
• The Turn-Up Card
• The Burglars
• Kings and Queens
• Mental Telepathy
• Long Distance Telepathy
• Magnetic Cards (Five Methods)
• The Vanishing Card
• The Automatic Rising Card
• The Card on the Hand
• The Spirit Card
• The Aces from the Pocket
• The Reversing Card
• The Traveling Ace
III. CIGAR AND CIGARETTE TRICKS (p.52)
• Cigar from Pocketbook
• Disappearing Cigar Band
• Cigar Balanced on Hat
• The Revolving Cigar
• The Reversing Cigarette
• The Magnetic Cigar
• The Invisible Cigarette
• The Automatic Cigarette
• Stretching a Cigarette
• The Tippy Cigarette
IV. COIN TRICKS (p.61)
• Match-box Coin Vanish
• Coin in Ball of Wool
• Ring and Vanishing Coin
• The “Wisenheimer” Coin Trick
• Three Appearing Coins
• The Fade-away Coin
• The Whirl-away Coin
• The Changing Coin
• The Multiplying Coins
• Odd and Even
• The Coin on the Door
• A Coin Box
• Where is the Coin?
• Catching Three Coins
• Coin Vanish from Hands
• Heads and Tails
• The Marked Coin
• Coin, Cards, and Rings
• Coin Through the Table
• Heads or Tails
• The Coin in the Knot
• “Vanishing” Coin from Handkerchief
• The Missing Coin
• Coin, Glass, and Plate
• A Coin Joke
• A Quick Coin Vanish
• The Talking Coin
• Box and Coin Trick
• The Coin through the Sleeve
• The Coin at the Elbow
V. DICE AND DOMINO TRICKS (p.84)
• The Magnetic Dice
• Naming the Total
• The End Numbers
• The Incomplete Game
• Sixteen Dominoes
• Totalling Three Dice
VI. EGG TRICKS (p.89)
• The Balanced Egg (Three Methods)
• Spinning an Egg
• The Floating Egg
• Eggs, Spools, and Glasses
• Egg to Confetti
VII. HANDKERCHIEF TRICKS (p.93)
• The Balanced Handkerchief
• The Doubling Knot
• The Appearing Knot
• Non-burning Handkerchief
• The Fly-away Knot
• The Draw-away Knot
• United and Untied
• Match in Handkerchief
• The Disappearing Handkerchief
• The Fade-away Knot Trick
VIII. LIQUID TRICKS (p.104)
• Ink to Water
• Water to Ink
• Water to Wine
• Wine to Water
• Two Goblets
• Wine and Water (without Chemicals)
• The Balanced Tumbler
• Gravity Defied
• The Dry Hand
• Disappearing Water
• Glass of Water from Pocket
• The Fountain Pencil
• The Traveling Glass
• The Glass and the Hat
• The Whirling Glass
IX. MATCH TRICKS (p.118)
• Four Triangles
• Vanishing Matches
• Monte with Matches
• Cutting Through a Match-Box
• Appearing Matches
• Penetrating Matches
• The Missing Light
• Mystic Safety Matches
• One at a Time
• Balancing a Match
• Burn-out Matches
• Ribbon from the Match
• Matches Through the Table
• The Adhesive Match Box
• The Match Square
• Lighted Match from Pocket
• Self-lighting Match
• The Multiplying Match
• The Standing Match
• The Diminishing Match-box
X. MISCELLANEOUS TRICKS (p.134)
• Glass Balanced on Plate
• Blowing through a Bottle
• The Mystic Cross
• The Jumping Ruler
• The Dry Bowl
• The Removable String
• The Improved Multiplying Corks
• Changing Spools
• The Ribbon from the Orange
• The Flower in the Buttonhole
XI. PAPER TRICKS (p.142)
• The Torn and Restored Cigarette Paper
• The Restored Napkin
• The Celebrity Trick
• The Three Paper Balls
• The Balls and the Hats
• Breaking the Pencil
• The Tough Napkin
• The Paper Bridge
• The Magic Number
• The Marked Paper
• Three Paper Slips
• Traveling Tissue Paper
• The Shower of Paper
• Production of Paper Money
• The Favorite Number
XII. PENCIL TRICKS (p.160)
• The Magnetic Pencil
• The Vanishing Pencil
• Turnabout Pencil
• Naming the Suit
• Pencil from Pocketbook
XIII. RING TRICKS (p.164)
• The Phantom Ring
• The Improved Phantom Ring
• Ring Tied on String
• The Ring on the Finger
• The Ring and String
• The Released Rings
• The Vanishing Ring
• The Ring in the Egg
• The Ring from the String
• The Cardboard Ring Trick
• Instantaneous Appearance of Six Rings
• The Dropping Ring
XIV. SPIRIT TRICKS (p.175)
• The Taped Slates
• The Spirit Slates
• The Spirit Name
• The Spirit Hand
• Contact Telepathy
• Reading Sealed Message
• Improved Envelope Test
• The Great Rope Tie
XV. SUGAR TRICKS (p.186)
• Floating Sugar
• Burning Sugar
• The Cloud of Sugar
• The Mystic Letter
XVI. THIMBLE TRICKS (p.189)
• Vanishing Thimble
• Color-changing Thimble
• The Jumping Thimble
• Thimble from Paper
• Thimble through Handkerchief
• Complete Penetration
XVII. WATCH TRICKS (p.196)
• The Stop Watch
• Number Six
• Telling the Time
• The Mystic Alarm Clock
• The Watch from the Handkerchief
• Down the Sleeve
TABLE OF CONTENTS (VOL. 2)
I. CARD TRICKS (p.I)
• An Amazing Discovery
• Finding a Chosen Card
• Maltese Crosses
• A Mysterious Coincidence
• A Card Through the Plate
• An Easy Four Ace Trick
• The Paddle Trick
• Telephone Telepathy
• A Mysterious Card Trick
• Card and Coin Trick
• The Mysterious Joker
• Card Changing Under Foot
• United Kings and Queens
• The Circle of Cards
• The Rosette
• Finding a Chosen Card from Case
• Rising Card from Case
• Revealing the Card
• Two Packets
• Red and Black
• The Elusive Card
• Cards to Cigarettes
• Forcing a Card
• The Card on the Watch
• A Surprise
II. CHECKER TRICKS (p.29)
• The Magic Knock-out
• A Checker Trick
• Making Kings
• The Mystic Nine
• The Magnetic Checker
• The Color Changing Checker
• Moving the Checkers
• Eleven or Twelve
• Nine or Ten
• Right and Left
• The Vanishing Checker
• A Trick with a Checker-board
• Picking Out the Black
• Changing Checkers
III. CONJURING WITH CIGARETTES (p.43)
• The Cigarette in the Hand
• Cigarettes in the Case
• The Rising Cigarette
• The Nameless Cigarette
• The Anti-Gravity Cigarette
• The Smoke Trick
• Self-Smoking Cigarette
IV. COIN TRICKS (p.50)
• An Appearing Coin
• A Balanced Coin
• The Coin on the Forehead
• The Bouncing Coin
• An Obedient Coin
• Traveling Coin
• Coin and Pins
• Coins from Elbow
• A Coin Disappearance
• Five Coin Problem
• Coin from Glass
• A Coin Catch
• Vanishing Money
• Coin and Tumbler
• Coin Through Table
• Coin from Table
• Snatching the Coin
• A Quick Coin Vanish
• He Thinks He Has It
• Both Sides
• Coin, Tube and Paper
• The Paper and the Coin
• Guessing the Date
• Heads Up
• Coin Through Handkerchief
• Tack in the Ceiling
• Coins, Plate and Glass
• The Hidden Coin
• Coin on the Wrist
• Odd or Even
• The Four Coin Trick
V. CORK TRICKS (p.73)
• The Bouncing Cork
• Upright Corks
• Two Corks
• Cork and Bottle
• Adhesive Corks
• Removing the Cork
VI. HAND TRICKS (p.78)
• The Mummified Finger
• The Extended Finger
• The Removable Thumb
• The Detachable Finger
• Stretching the Thumb
• Eleven Fingers
• Flexible Hands
• Clapping the Hands
• Tough Knuckles
• An Illusion of Touch
VII. HANDKERCHIEF TRICKS (p.88)
• The Hypnotized Handkerchief
• The Flying Handkerchief
• The Perfect Dissolving Knot
• A Sudden Knot
• An Escape
• Handkerchief on the String
VIII. MATCH TRICKS (p.95)
• Shooting the Match
• Six and Eleven
• Red and Blue
• Appearing Paper Matches
• Cross to Square
• Match to Cigarette
IX. MISCELLANEOUS TRICKS (p.100)
• The Three Beads
• A Vanishing Pencil
• A Difficult Job
• A Restored String
• The Mystic Propeller
• Pin Through the Head
• Pin Through the Finger
• Bottle and Straw
• Scissors and String
• The Turnover Key
• Paper Disks
• The Candy Ring
• Knife from the Glass
• The Vanishing Candle
• The Three Marbles Trick
• The Rubber Cube
X. NUMBER TRICKS (p.111)
• Totalling Twenty
• Telling the Total
• Nine Figures
• The Grand Total
• Cross Them Out
XI. OPTICAL TRICKS (p.116)
• Which is the Larger
• The Coin in the Glass
• Mystic Circles
• A Missing Coin
• Drawing with a Mirror
• Seeing Through Solid
• A Ghost
• Strange Lines
• The Snake and the Bird
• The Appearing Coin
XII. PAPER TRICKS (p.125)
• The Floating Paper Ball
• A Generous Offer
• Blow Them Away
• A Paper Tearing Trick
• It Looks Easy
• From the Ashes
• The Animated Fish
• The Mystic Name
• The Magic Blow
• A Paper Snake
• Transposed Paper Slips
• Red, White and Blue
• The Paper Ribbon Trick
• The Message on the Card
• Multiplying Paper Balls
• What’s on the Paper
• Three Cards
• Penetrating Paper
• The Paper Bag
• The Paper Ladder
XIII. SPIRIT TRICKS (p.143)
• Two Messages
• Pocket Spirit Slates
• Single Spirit Slate
• The Spirit Bell
• The Spirit Cloth
• Choosing a Question
• A Spirit Answer
• Spirit Table Lifting
• One Hand Table Lifting
• An Easy Slate Message
• A Spirit Question
• Strange Manifestations
• A Spirit Gong
• Strange Telepathy
• Mysterious Answers
• Mind Reading
• The Mystic Ring
• A Clever Slate Writing Trick
XIV. TABLE TRICKS (p.161)
• The Vanishing Salt Shaker
• Traveling Lumps of Sugar
• The Magnetic Knife
• The Obedient Spoon
• The Jumping Candle Flame
• Vanishing Salt
• The Enchanted Seed
• The Orange to the Apple
• The Vanishing Knife
• Swallowing a Knife
• Five-Knife Trick
• The Bridge of Knives
XV. THIMBLE TRICKS (p.174)
• The Floating Thimble
• Handkerchief Through Thimble
• Magnetic Thimbles
• The Tell-Tale Thimbles
• Red, White and Blue
XVI. TUMBLER TRICKS (p.179)
• The Over-full Tumbler
• A Two-Tumbler Trick
• Pouring Smoke
• Non-breakable Glass
• A Surprising Detection
• Lifting Six Glasses
• The Non-falling Glass
• The Magnetic Tumbler
• The Mystic Pointer
• The Top of the Tumbler
Conclusion (p.186)



