Magic reading list
Dawes, Edwin A., The Great Illusionists, New Jersey, Chartwell Books, 1979
Dawes, Edwin A., and Arthur Setterington, The Book of Magic, London, Admiral Books, 1986
Fisher, John, Paul Daniels and the Story of Magic, London, Jonathan Cape, 1987
Gibson, Walter, Secrets of the Great Magicians, London: Collins, 1976
Hopkins, Albert A., compiler and ed., Magic, Stage Illusions, Special Effects and Trick Photography, New York: Dover Publications,1976
McGill, Ormond, The New Encyclopedia of Stage Hypnotism, Carmarthen, Anglo American Book Co., 1996
Milbourne, Christopher, The Illustrated History of Magic,London, Robert Hale,1975
Steinmeyer, Jim, Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible, London, Arrow, 2005
Symes, Michael, Magic and Illusion,Princes Risborough, Shire, 2004
Waters, T.A., The Encyclopedia of Magic and Magicians (Oxford, Facts on File, 1988
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