Thurston, Howard: Howard Thurston's Card Tricks ©1901 Howard Thurston, L. Upcott Gill, London Hardcover, 87 pages plus ads ©1903 Henry J. Wehman, I&M Ottenheimer, MD ©1903 Walter Morris, NYC Softcover, perfect-bound, 5.5x8.5", 83 pages plus ads Also printed as 50 New Card Tricks Wehman Bros., NY

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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 (from 1901 L. Upcott Gill edition book):

i Preface

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
8 New York World August 21st 1890
10 The King of Cards

13 CHAPTER II Indispensable Sleights
13 The Pass
16 The Force
18 The Change
19 The Ordinary Palm

21 CHAPTER III The Continuous Front and Back Hand Palm, with Cards and Tricks in Connection Therewith
26 The Disappearance of Five Cards One at a Time
25 - Second Method
28 The Production of Cards One at a Time at the Finger-Tips From the Back-Hand Palm
32 The Production of Cards at the Finger-Tips from the Ordinary Palm
35 Passing a Card Through the Knees, Etc.

40 CHAPTER IV The Thurston System of Expert Card Manipulation
45 First Method
46 Second Method
49 To Instantly Name any Card Chosen
49 To Tell the Names of Any Number of Cards Chosen
51 To Tell the Exact Position in the Pack of Any Card Named by the Audience
55 Mind Over Mind or the Marvelous Will Power
56 To Cause a Card Selected by a Spectator to be Named by the Audience
59 A New Mind-Reading Feat With Cards

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

86 Final Remarks