Todd Karr's Bibliography of Magic vol. 1: Conjuring Books from 1584 to Today (Todd Karr's Bibliography of Magic vols. 1-4) - 254

With a Foreword by David Copperfield.Todd Karr's Bibliography of Magic vol. 1 (covering authors from Aalto to Denise) is the first volume of the most comprehensive bibliography of magic books ever published. 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. “Todd Karr has published the most comprehensive bibliography of books on magic and the allied arts ever – by far. Not just a must for magic-book collectors, these volumes will also be useful to professional practitioners of the art. So make some space on your favorite reference shelf and invest in a set soon.” – Byron Walker “The first step in any deep-dive study of a magician whose tricks you’re trying to learn from is to know all the books he wrote. From that point, the real research begins. Todd Karr’s Bibliography of Magic makes this an easy task. Finally, I have a comprehensive list of what magic books have been in print. It’s an indispensable resource for anyone who’s researching magic.” – Levent “Todd Karr’s Bibliography of Magic is the quintessential tool for authoritative magic writing. It’s a researcher’s encyclopedic guide to printed magic material, from the modern to the impossibly rare.” – Charles W. Greene III
ASIN: B0F7QCRHTB
VSKU: BVV.B0F7QCRHTB.VG
Condition: Very Good
Author/Artist:Karr, Todd|Copperfield, David
Binding: Hardcover