Description
Todd Karr’s Bibliography of Magic: Conjuring Books from 1584 to Today
A multi-volume set researched and compiled by Todd Karr
Foreword by David Copperfield
Three-volume set
More than 1750 pages
Over 23,000 historic and modern magic works fully detailed
Large-format 8.5 x 11 size
Bound in beautiful leather with gorgeous matching dust jackets
Three leather-bound volumes, approximately 600 pp. each
Limited to 120 signed, numbered copies
“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
“A truly valuable resource.” – James Alan, Genii magazine
“These books are a must-have for anybody serious about magic.”– Paul Romhany, Vanish magazine
“A remarkable resource.” – Alan Howard, M-U-M magazine
“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
With an eloquent foreword by David Copperfield, Todd Karr’s Bibliography of Magic is the most comprehensive bibliography of magic books ever published.
Compiled by award-winning conjuring historian Todd Karr, this amazing multi-volume 1762-page set features details of over 23,000 conjuring works from around the globe from 1584 to 2025.
Each entry lists the book’s author, title, date, publisher, city, binding, color, pages, size, topics, and other bibliographical information.
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 volumes.
This epic study of conjuring literature will hopefully soon become one of your favorite research tools to improve your techniques, find wonderfully unexpected secrets to read about, and 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.
Deluxe edition volumes:
vol. 1: Aalto to Friebe
vol. 2: Friedberg to McVicar
vol. 3: Mead to Zver
More compliments:
“Todd Karr’s Bibliography of Magic isn’t just for dusty old libraries. It’s for anyone who wants to understand magic’s history in order to create its future.” – Jeff Kowalk, Erudite Magic channel
“Just received your four-volume Bibliography of Magic set. What a wonderful set of extremely useful reference (and history) books. Really easy to navigate and nicely produced. And low cost for the size. Gosh, it must have taken years to research it all. Impressive!” – Paul Gordon
