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      Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible

      Jim Steinmeyer

      Presents a story of the Golden Age of magic and of the world’s legendary magicians: the personalities who patented the first ghost and competed fiendishly in the race to make…

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      The Last Greatest Magician in the World: Howard Thurston Versus Houdini & the Battles of the American Wizards

      Jim Steinmeyer

      Steinmeyer presents the seminal biography of the magician’s magician, Howard Thurston, a man who surpassed Houdini in the eyes of showmen and fans, and set the standard for how stage…

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      The Glorious Deception: The Double Life of William Robinson, aka Chung Ling Soo, the Marvelous Chinese Conjurer

      Jim Steinmeyer

      Master illusion designer and today’s foremost magic historian Jim Steinmeyer unveils the life, times, and tragic death of magic’s most mysterious performer in what Teller calls a true detective story…

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      Art and Artifice: And Other Essays of Illusion

      Jim Steinmeyer,Neil Gaiman

      From the magic world’s leading historian, two essential books on the fine art of deception and one of deception’s finest artists.

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      The Secret History of Magic: The True Story of the Deceptive Art

      Peter Lamont,Jim Steinmeyer

      A history of stage magic from ancient Egypt to David Copperfield –

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      Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear

      Jim Steinmeyer,Teller Teller

      A loving celebration of the genius, glamour, and gargantuan egos of stage magic. No author has ever better conveyed the way the love of conjuring consumes a magician’s life, with…

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      The Secret History of Magic Lib/E: The True Story of the Deceptive Art

      Peter Lamont,Jim Steinmeyer

      If you read a standard history of magic, you learn that it begins in ancient Egypt, with the resurrection of a goose in front of the Pharaoh. You discover how…

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      The Secret History of Magic: The True Story of the Deceptive Art

      Peter Lamont,Jim Steinmeyer

      A history of stage magic from ancient Egypt to David Copperfield –

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      The Secret History of Magic: The True Story of the Deceptive Art

      Peter Lamont,Jim Steinmeyer

      A history of stage magic from ancient Egypt to David Copperfield –

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      Magic 1400s-1950s

      Mike Caveney,Jim Steinmeyer,Ricky Jay

      Take a truly magical mystery tour with this sparkling compendium of magic and trickery from medieval thaumaturgies to 20th-century showmen. Featuring hundreds of rarely seen vintage posters, photographs, handbills, and…

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      The Magic Book

      Mike Caveney,Jim Steinmeyer,Ricky Jay

      Take a truly magical mystery tour with this sparkling compendium of magic and trickery from medieval thaumaturgies to 20th-century showmen. Featuring hundreds of rarely seen vintage posters, photographs, handbills, and…

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      The Magic Book. 40th Ed.

      Mike Caveney,Jim Steinmeyer,Ricky Jay

      Take a truly magical mystery tour with this sparkling compendium of magic and trickery from medieval thaumaturgies to 20th-century showmen. Featuring hundreds of rarely seen vintage posters, photographs, handbills, and…

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