Fifty New Card Tricks
by Howard Thurston

Includes a comprehensive description of the continuous front and back hand palm with cards, and the sensational new rising card trick.

• CHAPTER I. A Few Incidents in the Life of Howard Thurston
• CHAPTER II. Indispensable Sleights
  • THE PASS
  • THE FORCE
  • THE CHANGE
  • THE ORDINARY PALM
• CHAPTER III. The Continuous Front and Back Hand-Palm and Tricks in Connection Therewith
  • THE DISAPPEARANCE OF FIVE CARDS ONE AT A TIME
  • THE PRODUCTION OF CARDS ONE AT A TIME AT THE FINGER-TIPS FROM THE BACK-HAND PALM
  • THE PRODUCTION OF CARDS AT THE FINGER-TIPS FROM THE ORDINARY PALM
  • PASSING A CARD THROUGH THE KNEES, ETC.
• CHAPTER IV. The "Thurston" System of Expert Card Manipulation
  • TO INSTANTLY NAME ANY CARD CHOSEN
  • TO TELL THE NAMES OF ANY NUMBER OF CARDS CHOSEN
  • TO TELL THE EXACT POSITION IN THE PACK OF ANY CARD NAMED BY THE AUDIENCE
  • MIND OVER MIND, OR THE MARVELLOUS WILL POWER
  • TO CAUSE A CARD SELECTED BY A SPECTATOR TO BE NAMED BY THE AUDIENCE
  • A NEW MIND-READING FEAT WITH CARDS
• CHAPTER V. An Incomprehensible Divination
  • A MECHANICAL CARD FOR THE BACKHAND PALM
  • A CARD CAUGHT ON THE CORNER OF A BORROWED HANDKERCHIEF
  • THE "THURSTON" METHOD OF THROWING CARDS
  • TRICKS FOR THE NOVICE
  • A PACK OF CARDS CHANGED TO TWO LARGE BALLS
  • NEW CARD AND EGG MYSTERY
  • DISAPPEARANCE OF A CARD THOUGHT OF BY A SPECTATOR
  • THE ELECTRIC CARDS
  • THE "THURSTON" RISING CARDS
• FINAL REMARKS

1st edition 1900, 83 pages; PDF 45 pages.
word count: 12495 which is equivalent to 49 standard pages of text