200 Tricks You Can Do
by Howard Thurston

This book shows that Howard Thurston, sometimes refered to as the World's Master Magician, knew a lot about the Close-up side of magic, not just stage magic. He explains tricks with coins, cards, balls, matches, paper, ... There is something for everybody - easy and self-working tricks for the beginner, and more advanced ones for the intermediate skilled performer. Make sure to also check out More Tricks You Can Do

published 1926 by George Sully and Company; published 1939 as one volume together with "200 More Tricks You Can Do" as "400 Tricks You Can Do" by Blue Ribbon Books; 200 pages

5. Preface
7. A Brief Biography of Howard Thurston
1. Introduction
5. I. BALL TRICKS
   5. 1. The Appearing Ball
   7. 2. The Vanishing Ball
   7. 3. The Diminishing Ball
   8. 4. The Self-Rolling Ball
   9. 5. The Aërial Ball
   10. 6. Balanced Golf Balls
   10. 7. The Mysterious Ball
   11. 8. The Ball Tube
13. II. CARD TRICKS
    14. 1. The "One-Way" Pack
    15. 2. The Pencil-Mark Pack
    15. 3. Pointed Cards
    16. 4. The Double Card
    17. 5. The Short Card
    18. 6. The Bent Corner
    18. 7. False Shuffling
    20. 8. Cut to the Card
    21. 9. The Spelling Trick
    24. 10. The Wise Queen
    26. 11. The Four-Ace Trick
    28. 12. The X-Ray Cardcase
    29. 13. The Color-Changing Pack
    30. 14. The Color-Changing Card
    31. 15. The Three Jacks
    32. 16. Card At Any Number
    33. 17. The Card in the Pocket
    34. 18. The Turn-Up Card
    35. 19. The Burglars
    37. 20. Kings and Queens
    38. 21. Mental Telepathy
    40. 22. Long Distance Telepathy
    42. 23. Magnetic Cards
    44. 24. The Vanishing Card
    45. 25. The Automatic Rising Card
    46. 26. The Card on the Hand
    46. 27. The Spirit Card
    48. 28. The Aces From the Pocket
    49. 29. The Reversing Card
    51. 30. The Traveling Ace
52. III. CIGAR AND CIGARETTE TRICKS
    52. 1. Cigar from Pocketbook
    53. 2. Disappearing Cigar Band
    53. 3. Cigar Balanced on Hat
    54. 4. The Revolving Cigar
    54. 5. The Reversing Cigar
    55. 6. The Magnetic Cigar
    56. 7. The Invisible Cigarette
    57. 8. The Automatic Cigarette
    58. 9. Stretching a Cigarette
    59. 10. The Tippy Cigarette
61. IV. COIN TRICKS
    61. 1. Match Box Coin Vanish
    61. 2. Coin in Ball of Wool
    62. 3. Ring and Vanishing Coin
    63. 4. The "Wisenheimer" Coin Trick
    64. 5. Three Appearing Coins
    64. 6. The Fade-Away Coin
    65. 7. The Whirl-away Coin
    66. 8. The Changing Coin
    67. 9. The Multiplying Coins
    67. 10. Odd and Even
    68. 11. The Coin on the Door
    69. 12. A Coin Box
    70. 13. Where Is the Coin?
    71. 14. Catching Three Coins
    72. 15. Coin Vanishes From Hands
    72. 16. Heads and Tails
    73. 17. The Marked Coin
    73. 18. Coin, Cards, and Rings
    74. 19. Coin Through the Table
    75. 20. Heads or Tails
    76. 21. The Coin in the Knot
    77. 22. "Vanishing" Coin from Handkerchiefs
    78. 23. The Missing Coin
    78. 24. Coin, Glass, and Plate
    79. 25. A Coin Joke
    80. 26. A Quick Coin Vanish
    80. 27. The Talking Coin
    81. 28. Box and Coin Trick
    82. 29. The Coin Through the Sleeve
    82. 30. The Coin at the Elbow
84. V. DICE AND DOMINO TRICKS
    84. 1. The Magnetic Dice
    84. 2. Naming the Total
    85. 3. The End Numbers
    86. 4. The Incomplete Game
    87. 5. Sixteen Dominoes
    87. 6. Totalling Three Dice
89. VI. EGG TRICKS
    89. 1. The Balanced Egg
    90. 2. Spinning an Egg
    90. 3. The Floating Egg
    91. 4. Eggs, Spools, and Glasses
    92. 5. Egg to Confetti
93. VII. HANDKERCHIEF TRICKS
    94. 1. The Balanced Handkerchief
    94. 2. The Doubling Knot
    95. 3. The Appearing Knot
    96. 4. Non-Burning Handkerchief
    97. 5. The Flyaway Knot
    98. 6. The Draw-Away Knot
    99. 7. United and Untied
    100. 8. Match in Handkerchief
    100. 9. The Disappearing Handkerchief
    101. 10. The Fadeaway Knot Trick
104. VIII. LIQUID TRICKS
     104. 1. Ink to Water
     105. 2. Water to Ink
     106. 3. Water to Wine
     106. 4. Wine to Water
     106. 5. Two Goblets
     107. 6. Wine to Water (Without Chemicals)
     108. 7. The Balanced Tumbler
     109. 8. Gravity Defied
     111. 9. The Dry Hand
     111. 10. Disappearing Water
     112. 11. Glass of Water from Pocket
     112. 12. The Fountain Pencil
     113. 13. The Traveling Glass
     114. 14. The Glass and the Hat
     116. 15. The Whirling Glass
118. IX. MATCH TRICKS
     118. 1. Four Triangles
     119. 2. The Vanishing Matches
     119. 3. Monte With Matches
     120. 4. Cutting Through a Match-Box
     121. 5. Appearing Matches
     122. 6. Penetrating Matches
     123. 7. The Missing Light
     123. 8. Mystic Safety Matches
     124. 9. One at a Time
     124. 10. Balancing a Match
     125. 11. Burn-out Matches
     125. 12. Ribbon From the Match
     126. 13. Matches Through the Table
     127. 14. The Adhesive Match Box
     128. 15. The Match Square
     129. 16. Lighted Match From Pocket
     130. 17. Self-lighting Match
     130. 18. The Multiplying Match
     131. 19. The Standing Match
     132. 20. The Diminishing Match-Box
134. X. MISCELLANEOUS TRICKS
     134. 1. Glass Balanced on Plate
     134. 2. Blowing Through a Bottle
     135. 3. The Mystic Cross
     136. 4. The Jumping Ruler
     136. 5. The Dry Bowl
     137. 6. The Removable String
     138. 7. The Improved Multiplying Corks
     139. 8. Changing Spools
     140. 9. The Ribbon from the Orange
     141. 10. The Flower in the Buttonhole
142. XI. PAPER TRICKS
     142. 1. The Torn and Restored Cigarette Paper
     143. 2. The Restored Paper Napkin
     145. 3. The Celebrity Trick
     146. 4. The Three Paper Balls
     148. 5. The Balls and the Hats
     151. 6. Breaking the Pencil
     152. 7. The Tough Napkin
     152. 8. The Paper Bridge
     153. 9. The Magic Number
     154. 10. The Marked Paper
     155. 11. Three Paper Slips
     155. 12. Traveling Tissue Paper
     157. 13. The Shower of Paper
     158. 14. Production of Paper Money
     159. 15. The Favorite Number
160. XII. PENCIL TRICKS
     160. 1. The Magnetic Pencil
     161. 2. The "Vanishing" Pencil
     161. 3. Turnabout Pencil
     162. 4. Naming the Suit
     163. 5. Pencil From Pocketbook
164. XIII. RING TRICKS
     164. 1. The Phantom Ring
     165. 2. The Improved Phantom Ring
     166. 3. Ring Tied on String
     166. 4. The Ring on the Finger
     167. 5. The Ring and String
     168. 6. The Released Rings
     169. 7. The "Vanishing" Ring
     169. 8. The Ring in the Egg
     170. 9. The Ring From the String
     172. 10. The Cardboard Ring Trick
     172. 11. Instantaneous Appearance of Six Rings
     173. 12. The Dropping Ring
175. XIV. SPIRIT TRICKS
     176. 1. The Taped Slates
     177. 2. The Three Spirit Slates
     179. 3. The Spirit Name
     180. 4. The Spirit Hand
     181. 5. Contact Telepathy
     182. 6. Reading Sealed Message
     183. 7. Improved Envelope Test
     184. 8. The Great Rope Tie
186. XV. SUGAR TRICKS
     186. 1. Floating Sugar
     186. 2. Burning Sugar
     187. 3. The Cloud of Sugar
     187. 4. The Mystic Letter
189. XVI. THIMBLE TRICKS
     189. 1. A "Vanishing" Thimble
     190. 2. Color-changing Thimble
     190. 3. The Jumping Thimble
     191. 4. Thimble From Paper
     192. 5. Thimble Through Handkerchief
     194. 6. Complete Penetration
196. XVII. WATCH TRICKS
     196. 1. The Stop Watch
     196. 2. Number Six
     197. 3. Telling the Time
     198. 4. The Mystic Alarm Clock
     199. 5. The Watch from the Handkerchief
     200. 6. Down the Sleeve