J. G. Thompson Jr. - My Best

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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"

1st edition 1945, 1st digital edition 2016, 400 pages.
word count: 167363 which is equivalent to 669 standard pages of text