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[[Sid Lorraine]]'s list of best books was published in his column "Sid Lorraine's Chatter" in [[Tops]] for June 1939 in response to a question posed to him in a letter.
'''Exclusive Magical Secrets''' was the first of the "locked books" by [[Will Goldston]] published in 1912.  Each book came with a padlock and key with a clasp built into the book  to keep the book, in a cheap red leather binding, closed. Thus, you were not able to walk in a magic shop (Goldston’s, mainly) and browse the book.


Only 1,000 copies were printed, each with the name of the subscriber gold-stamped on the cover. The subscriber also had to sign an agreement in order not to disclose the secrets therein.  
Books published prior to 1920 (not including magazines):
* [[The Old and the New Magic]] - Henry R. Evans
* [[Our Magic]] - Jasper Maskelyne and David Devant
* [[Art of Magic]] - T. Nelson Downs & Hilliard
* [[The Expert at the Card Table]] - Erdnase
* [[Modern Magic]] - Pr. Hoffmann
* [[Sleight of Hand]] - Edwin Sachs
* [[Magicians' Tricks, How They Are Done]] - Henry Hatton & Adrian Plate
* [[Expert Billiard Ball Manipulation, Part 1 & 2]] - Burling Hull
* [[The Modern Conjurer]] - C. Lang Neil
* [[Original Magical Creations]] - Stanley Collins
* [[Original Mysteries for Magicians]] - Brunel White
* [[The Magical Entertainer]] - P. T. Selbit
* [[Problems in Mystery]] - Max Sterling
* [[Magical Originalities]] - Ernest E. Noakes
* [[Modern Coin Manipulation]] - T. Nelson Downs
* [[Secrets of Conjuring and Magic]] - Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin


Its been told that some of the original subscribers, when passed away, asked to be buried with their copy of the book, to prevent it from falling in the wrong hands.
Other list of magic books by others include:
 
* [[Jinx Five-Foot Shelf Of Magic]] 
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* [[Ten basic books for a working library of conjuring]] by H. Adrian Smith
* [[Albo's top thirty-nine books]]

Revision as of 09:14, 20 May 2011

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Sid Lorraine's list of best books was published in his column "Sid Lorraine's Chatter" in Tops for June 1939 in response to a question posed to him in a letter.

Books published prior to 1920 (not including magazines):

Other list of magic books by others include:

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