The Magic Bibliography Site
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The world's most precise collection of information on conjuring literature
Magic book research can be time-consuming, so we've ramped it up to lightning speed. The Magic Bibliography Site is the database of conjuring literature you've waited for. With every detail at your fingertips, researching that elusive magic book has never been so easy.
We've done the hard work for you, compiling and analyzing over 23,000 books on magic, old and new, to collect all the information you need into one convenient searchable database so you can consult the facts in an instant. It works great on your phone, too.
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Search the entire highly detailed contents of our acclaimed multi-volume Bibliography of Magic. Now you can easily look up any topic, author, era, or language that you're researching. Even better, we revise the database constantly with the latest magic books.
To supplement your research, you can individually search inside over 3000 pages of classic magic bibliographies from 1843 to 1978, including Toole Stott, Burlingame, Clarke and Blind, Evans, Farelli, Findlay, Hall, Heyl, Price, Stanyon, and many more.
Read more than 15,000 pages of individually searchable magic book dealer and auction catalogs full of gorgeous color images, from Leo Rullman catalogs to Potter and Potter auctions, providing even more historical context to your research.
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The physical and mental endeavour required to produce this four-volume masterpiece is beyond imagining. Todd Karr has conjured up a work of scholarship that will be cherished and consulted as long as the art of magic is performed. His is a monumental achievement that can proudly stand in the line of conjuring chroniclers as diverse as S. W. Clarke, Tarbell, Toole Stott, Whaley, and Dawes.
- John Fisher
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
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.â€
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- James Alan, Genii magazine
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.
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- Find the title of every book written by your favorite magic author
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- Locate every work written by Houdini plus Houdini biographies
- Find sources when writing up your magic effect with proper details for citations
- Research your scholarly article or biographical essay
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- Have a handy pocket reference at magic conventions
- Use it like a historian's Swiss Army knife in the library for quick lookups
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