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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):

• 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

Other list of magic books by others include:

• Jinx Five-Foot Shelf Of Magic
• Ten basic books for a working library of conjuring by H. Adrian Smith
• Albo's top thirty-nine books