Howard Thurston's Card Tricks

The young Thurston's own card system: the back palm, flourishes and the rising cards act that launched his career.

What’s inside

1. A few incidents in the life of Howard Thurston — the “premier card manipulator of the world” and how he mystified Hermann
2. Indispensable sleights — the pass, the force, the change, the ordinary palm
3. The continuous front- and back-hand palm, with tricks — vanishing five cards one at a time, productions at the fingertips
4. The “Thurston” system of expert card manipulation — naming chosen cards, “mind over mind”, a new mind-reading feat with cards
5. Miscellaneous card tricks and Thurston’s new rising cards — a card caught on a handkerchief, throwing cards, tricks for the novice, the electric cards

Howard Thurston, 1901. Complete 44-page PDF. Free to download: check out at $0 and the file arrives by email and on your order page.

This classic is in the public domain. Scans come from library copies, so expect the odd stain or stamp of an old book.