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== Bibliography ==
 
== Bibliography ==
* Table Tricks
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* Nick's Table Trix (1956)
* Subtle Card Creations
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* Cardman's Secrets (1964)
* CARDMAN'S SECRETS (1964)
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* E.S.P. Session with Nick Trost (1965)
* E.S.P. SESSION WITH NICK TROST (1965)
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* Mental Card Miracles (1965)
* Expert Gambling Tricks (1975)  
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* Expert Gambling Tricks (1975)
* IMPROMPTU CARD MAGIC FOLIO NO. 2 (1979)
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* Gambling Tricks with Cards II (1975)
* Card Magic of Nick Trost
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* Impromptu Card Magic Folio NO. 2 (1979)
* Gambling Tricks with Cards II
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* The Card Magic of Nick Trost (1997)
* Mental Card Miracles
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* Subtle Card Creations (2008)
  
 
[[Category:Biographies|Trost, Nick]]
 
[[Category:Biographies|Trost, Nick]]

Revision as of 18:44, 24 October 2008

Nick Trost (March 16, 1935 - October 23, 2008), born Nicholas K. Trost was a prolific author of booklets and packet tricks.

He was an alumnus of Ohio State University and a private the Army in 1957. Nick Trost first became enthused about magic when he was seven or eight years after seeing a magic show staged by the members of IBM Ring 3 in Troy, Ohio. He then met Bob Lewis of Dayton, Ohio, who sparked his keen interest in card magic.

Trost did a card column in The New Tops from May 1961 until December 1994.

Hocus Pocus Parade in Linking Ring 1955 and also received the award for originality of a card effect at the IBM Convention in Pittsburgh. Pa. that same year.

Trost died of Brain cancer after being diagnosed earlier in 2008.

Bibliography

  • Nick's Table Trix (1956)
  • Cardman's Secrets (1964)
  • E.S.P. Session with Nick Trost (1965)
  • Mental Card Miracles (1965)
  • Expert Gambling Tricks (1975)
  • Gambling Tricks with Cards II (1975)
  • Impromptu Card Magic Folio NO. 2 (1979)
  • The Card Magic of Nick Trost (1997)
  • Subtle Card Creations (2008)