Todd Karr’s Bibliography of Magic Vols. 1-4 (Standard Edition)

Created by one of magic's top literary figures, award-winning conjuring historian Todd Karr, this amazing four-volume set features details of over 23,000 conjuring works from around the globe from 1584 to 2025.

Whether you're looking for information on all of Houdini's written works, investigating a scarce antiquarian pamphlet on sleight-of-hand or a modern book on stage illusion, or conducting in-depth research on card magic or mentalism, you'll likely find what you're looking for in these four volumes.

This epic study of conjuring literature will hopefully soon become one of your favorite research tools to improve your techniques, to find wonderfully unexpected secrets to read, and to explore the vast, subtle, and long-lived art of the magician.

The bibliography traces the lifetime output of every individual author and every magic publisher's slate of releases, as well as exhaustively recorded variants and later editions to allow you to follow the whole publishing history of many important writings that have never before been fully documented.

The immense array of entries examine every genre of magic book imaginable by both well-known and small-time authors, including cloth-bound tomes, modern casebound volumes, aged pamphlets, stapled lecture notes, paperback books, magazine anthologies, as well as instructions, manuscripts, advertising booklets, magic-set manuals, and pulp publications.

NOTE: This is the 4-volume Standard Set, now listed as "out of print."

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