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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