My Best by J. G. Thompson Jr.
This is a classic, a wonderful book now available as PDF. It contains the best of the best from 115 well-known professionals and clever amateurs. 193 tricks and routines from all branches of magic.
Preface
Introduction
Chapter I: Discoveries And Revelations
The Card Between
Cards Of Cairo
The Middle Deal
Dick Tracy Card Trick
Tap Force
Under Cover
As You Desire
So That's The Way You Want It!
Kindred Spirits
The Timed Turnover
Magneto-Box
The Kolar Card Trick
My Clutch Slips
Bill Mccaffrey's Prize Winner
Card On The Wall
Are You Sure?
The Principle Of Alternative Terminations
Just Think Of One
Here's Your Card
Well, Well!
That's The Way They're Done
Chapter II: Cards In Motion
"Insto-Transpo Perfected"
There'll Be Some Changes Made!
Technicolor Transpose
Saturn's Card Transposition
"Guess It"
Again - The Card In The Wallet
Parade Of The Lamas
Up My Sleeve
Effective Passee-Passee Card Melange
Card Thru Hank
Six Cards To Pocket With Extras
Here. There And Everywhere
The Improved "Zens" Cards & Envelopes
Rising Cards From Houlette
Mechanico Rising Cards
The Impromptu Floating Card
The J. M. Rising Card
My Best Rising Cards
Chapter III: Meeting Of The Minds
The Master Mind
At A Mentally Chosen Number
Sensitive Fingers
Four Ace Memory Test
Extra Joker Prediction
Next!
Follow Me
Bi-Mentalism
Silent Stop
Digivision
In The Mind
Spread, Shuffle, Spread
"Dark Eyes"
Turnabout
The Blue Intruder
Coincidence? No. Prevision? Yes
The L. W. Stop Mystery
Mental Rescue
"Two Be Or Not Two Be - That Was The Question"
My Best Trick
Predictopack
Encore
Carbo
The Mental Broadcast
Peek Deck
Out Of These Hands
The Future Deck
The Magician's Dream
Victoria
Chapter IV: Potpourri
One Plus One Equals Three
A Two-Tiered Blank Fan And Some Variations
Flighty Aces
Hallucination
The Alpha Four Ace Trick
New Color Change Of A Giant Card Fan
I Won't Play Cards With You
One In Millions!
Telepathic Routine
The Canfield Set-Up
The King Can Do No Wrong
Vanishing Aces
The Four Burglars
Greatest Four Ace Trick
A New "Find The Lady" Illusion
Mind-Testing Deck
Chapter V: Pocket Tricks
St(R)Ung!
The Ghost Coin And Key
Paper Napkin Vanish
Ribbon Release
Gone!
Paper Money
I.O.U.
Impromptu Bill Reading
Four Coin Transposition
The Ring On Pencil
Pop Through Cigarette
The Ring Of Thoth
A Cubical Curiosity
Jamison's Spot Sticks
Karger's Bent Coin
A Hole In One
The Pedagogue's Nightmare
A Shot Of Scotch
Three In One
Peter Rabbit Goes To Town!
Sefalaljia III
Tapping Pencil
Perpetual Pencil
Poor Man's Bank Night
The Philanthropic Poker Chip
The Ghost Coins
Hornswoggled
Materialization
Double Or Nothing
Chapter VI: Tricks For The Home
Pen-Plexity
Vanishing Salt Trick
Marbles And Marvels
Under The Pan
Finger Finger
On The Cuff
The Trick Without A Name
The Perfect Pitch Test
Kolar's Magic Shears
Dead!
"The Morris Plan"
Telephone Book Trick
Assisted By The Dead
Trinket Test
Chapter VII: Tricks For Home And Stage
Multiple Slate Writing
Wuxtra!
Egyptian X-Ray Scope
A Paper Cone, Silk N' Water
The Spirit Mirror
A Ring In Transit
Humpty Dumpty Gets Around
Double Locking Slate
Double Locking Periscope Slate
Cut Post Card Mystery
The Watch, Glass And Handkerchief
Hand(Y) Magic
Big Money
Physician's Ropes
Dy-Cyphering Trick
Chesbro On Heath's "Dy-Cyphering"
Take A Number From 1 To 30
Hugard's Butterflies
Magnetic Spheres
A Silk Production
The Bewitched Paper
Dollar Bill In Lemon
The Rise And Fall Of Paul Mall
Linking Rings
Torn And Restored Strip Of Paper
Psychic Impressions
Mystic Sewing Machine
The Ring From A Rope
Tomorrow's News
The Invisible Mischievous Genii
Moonlight Madness
Tear Supreme
Refund
Chapter VIII: Stage Effects
The Telephone Drama
The Test Of The Tiber
The Arrowsmith Glass Penetration
Hat'n Bunny 305
The Color-Changing Hat And Gloves
An Amusing Interlude
The Flaming Punch
Fountain Of Silks
The Silver Shower
The Elusive Canary
"My Best" Club Laugh
"My Best" Flash Opening
My Favorite Trunk Routine
The Four Door Production Cabinet
The Magic Sewing Cabinet
Magic Of The Wand
"Pop's" Opener
Karson's A La Die Box Illusion
The Lamarque Rabbit Vanish
Fatima
A "Flash" Opener
"Just Raising Cane"
Modern Crystal Coin Jar
Nite Club Teaser
Thought Projection Test
Odloscope
"The Secret Of The Maharajah"
Patter For The Egg Bag
The Escape-Ologist
Namreh's "Electrick"
Cig To Pipe
Watch And Nest Of Boxes Without Assistant
Windsor's Egg Bag Routine
The M. F. Zens Magic Table And Walking Through Ribbon Illusion
Chapter IX: Biographical Sketches Of Contributors
Theo. Annemann
Charles Arbuthnot, III
George Ernest Arrowsmith
Roger Barkann
Sylvan Barnet
Joseph L. Barnett
Raymond L. Beebe
Eugene Bernstein
J. B. Bobo
John Nicholls Booth
Tom Bowyer
Vynn Boyar
Joan Brandon
Fred Braue
John Braun
Lu Brent
R. C. Buff
Clyde F. Cairy
Loring Campbell
Jack Chanin
Frank Chapman
Forest V. Chesbro
Milbourne Christopher
Eddie Clever
Stanley Collins
Mystic Craig
Thomas J. Crawford
John J. Crimmins, Jr.
Paul J. Curry
Del Monte
Harry Dobrin
Ronald B. Edwards
Bruce Elliott
Professor El-Tab
Dr. E. G. Ervin
Dr. Henry Ridgely Evans
Val Evans
"Hen" Fetsch
Thomas B. Fitzgerald
Dariel Fitzkee
Sid Fleischman
Joseph Harman Fries
Martin Gardner
Teral Garrett
Walter B. Gibson
Arnold L. Grubin
Nelson C. Hahne
Hathaway
Royal V. Heath
Charles H. Hopkins
Jean Hugard
Mark Jacobs
R. M. Jamison
F. H. Jeudevine
Maurice Kains
George G. Kaplan
George Karger
Joseph A. Karson
Wilbur Kattner
Gerald Lynton Kaufman
Howard B. Kayton, M.D.
The Great Kolar
Gerald Kosky
Abril Lamarque
William W. Larsen
Sid Lorraine
Art Lyle
L. Vosburgh Lyons
Richard F. Madden
Greer Marechal, Jr.
George Mcathy
William H. Mccaffrey
Jack Mcmillen
Harry Mendoza
Orville Meyer
John W. Mifflin
Chester Morris
Paul Morris
Frederick Mosteller
Robert A. Nelson
C. A. George Newmann
Grady S. Nicholson
Dr. Cecil E. Nixon
Charles Walter Nyquist
Dell O'dell
Tom Osborne
George Harrison Pittman
Julien J. Proskauer
Clayton Rawson
Ralph W. Read
Dolf Rudin
Herb Rungie
Ned Rutledge
James J. Sanders
Lucille Pierce Saxon
Sigmar - The Magician
Jerry Sorensen
Willard S. Smith
George Starke
Dr. Raymond V. Stone. Sr. (Ramo)
Harlan Tarbell
Dr. Franklin V. Taylor
J. G. Thompson. Jr.
Jack F. Trepel
M. Van Reese
Jack Vosburgh
Audley Valentine Walsh
Peter Warlock
Herman L. Weber
Bob Weill
William H. Wilson
Tommy Windsor
Howard D. Wise
Ed. Wolff
Michael F. Zens
"My Best"
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