Free magic books · 1584 to 1928
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The great textbooks
The books magicians learned from for a century.
Modern Magic
Professor Hoffmann · 1876
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More Magic
Professor Hoffmann · 1890
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Later Magic
Professor Hoffmann · 1904
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Latest Magic
Professor Hoffmann · 1918
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Our Magic
Nevil Maskelyne & David Devant · 1911
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The Art of Magic
T. Nelson Downs · 1909
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Magicians' Tricks: How They Are Done
Henry Hatton & Adrian Plate · 1910
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Herrmann's Wizard's Manual
Herrmann · 1916
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Stanyon's Magic
Ellis Stanyon · 1901
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Latter Day Tricks
A. Roterberg · 1896
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The Secrets of Stage Conjuring
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin · 1881
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Magic: Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions
Albert A. Hopkins · 1897
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Sleight of Hand
Edwin T. Sachs · 1877
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Conjuring for Amateurs
Ellis Stanyon · 1897
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The Magician's Own Book
George Arnold · 1857
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Magic No Mystery
Wiljalba Frikell · 1876
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The Fashionable Science of Parlour Magic
John Henry Anderson · 1843
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Parlour Magic
Anonymous · 1838
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The Black Art, or Magic Made Easy
Anonymous · 1869
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Card magic
Sleights, systems and card tricks.
The Expert at the Card Table
S. W. Erdnase · 1902
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Stanyon's Card Tricks
Ellis Stanyon · 1900
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Howard Thurston's Card Tricks
Howard Thurston · 1901
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Si Stebbins' Card Tricks and the Way They Are Performed
Si Stebbins · c. 1900
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Tricks with Cards
Professor Hoffmann · 1889
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New Era Card Tricks
A. Roterberg · 1897
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Card Tricks and How to Do Them
A. Roterberg · 1902
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Cheats, mediums and exposés
How the swindlers did it, written down by the people who caught them.
Card-Sharpers: Their Tricks Exposed
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin · 1863
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Sharps and Flats
John Nevil Maskelyne · 1894
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Fools of Fortune
John Philip Quinn · 1890
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An Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling
Jonathan H. Green · 1843
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The Right Way to Do Wrong
Harry Houdini · 1906
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Miracle Mongers and Their Methods
Harry Houdini · 1920
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Behind the Scenes with the Mediums
David P. Abbott · 1907
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A Magician Among the Spirits
Harry Houdini · 1924
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Houdini Exposes the Tricks Used by the Boston Medium Margery
Harry Houdini · 1924
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The Spirit World Unmasked
Henry Ridgely Evans · 1897
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Hours with the Ghosts
Henry Ridgely Evans · 1897
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Modern Spiritualism
John Nevil Maskelyne · 1876
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The Supernatural?
Lionel A. Weatherly & J. N. Maskelyne · 1891
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Spirit Slate Writing and Kindred Phenomena
William E. Robinson · 1898
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Coins, paper and more
Coins, paper, juggling, mind reading, patter and puzzles.
Modern Coin Manipulation
T. Nelson Downs · 1900
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Houdini's Paper Magic
Harry Houdini · 1922
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New Juggling Tricks
Ellis Stanyon · c. 1900
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How to Read People's Minds
H. J. Burlingame · 1905
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Conjuring Patter
P. T. Selbit · 1904
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Puzzles Old and New
Professor Hoffmann · 1893
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Mathematical Recreations and Essays
W. W. Rouse Ball · Tenth edition, 1922 (first published 1892)
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The first magic books
The oldest books on the shelf, from 1584 to 1820.
The Discoverie of Witchcraft
Reginald Scot · 1584
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The Art of Juggling or Legerdemain
Samuel Rid · 1612
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Hocus Pocus Junior
Anonymous · 1634
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Hocus Pocus, or The Whole Art of Legerdemain
Henry Dean · 1722
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Breslaw's Last Legacy, or the Conjurer Unmasked
Philip Breslaw · 1784
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Physical Amusements and Diverting Experiments
Giuseppe Pinetti · 1784
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Natural Magic, or Physical Amusements Revealed
Philip Astley · 1785
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Philosophical Amusements
Henri Decremps · 1790
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The Juggler's Oracle
Herman Boaz · 1820
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Magicians’ lives and history
Memoirs from the road and the histories of the art.
Memoirs of Robert-Houdin
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin · 1859
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The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin
Harry Houdini · 1908
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A Magician's Tour
Harry Kellar · 1886
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A Magician in Many Lands
Charles Bertram · 1911
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Around the World with a Magician and a Juggler
H. J. Burlingame · 1891
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Magic and Its Professors
Henry Ridgely Evans · 1902
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The Old and the New Magic
Henry Ridgely Evans · 1906
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History of Conjuring and Magic
Henry Ridgely Evans · 1928
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History of Magic and Magicians
H. J. Burlingame · 1895
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