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Magic tricks -- Psychological aspects

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• Magic tricks
• Psychological aspects

• Performing Deception: Learning, Skill and the Art of Conjuring (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by Brian Rappert (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Annemann's Practical Mental Effects: A Comprehensive Collection of the Best Mental Tricks of Recent Years (second printing; New York et al.: Holden's Magic Shops, 1946), by Theodore Annemann, ed. by John J. Crimmins, illust. by Nelson Hahne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Black Herman's Secrets of Magic, Mystery and Legerdermain (15th DeLuxe edition; Dallas: Dorene Pub Co, c1938), by Black Herman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conjuring for Amateurs: A Practical Treatise on How to Perform Modern Tricks (1901), by Ellis Stanyon (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Fireside Magician: or, the Art of Natural Magic Made Easy (New York: Dick and Fitzgerald, c1870), by Thomas Picton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Magic: In Which Are Given Clear and Concise Explanations of All the Well-Known Illusions, As Well As Many New Ones (Philadelphia: Penn Pub. Co., 1910), by Ellis Stanyon, contrib. by Henry Ridgely Evans (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Magical Suggestions (London: G. Johnson, 1921), by Harry Latour (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Memorias e Confidencias do Popular Illusionista Faure Nicolay (in Portuguese; Rio De Janeiro: Typ. Villas-Bôas, 1901), by Nicoláu Faure Nicolay
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Sleights: Being a Number of Incidental Effects, Tricks, Sleights, Moves and Passes, For Purposes Ranging From Impromptu to Platform Performances (c1914), by Burling Hull (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Some Modern Conjuring: A Series of Original Experiments in the Magic Art (ca. 1909), by Donald Holmes (multiple formats at archive.org)
• New Juggling Tricks (first series; London: E. Stanyon and co., 1901), by Ellis Stanyon (illustrated HTML at juggling.org)
• Sealed Mysteries: Explaining the Latest Card Mysteries and Spirit Tricks Made Public for the First Time, with Directions for Constructing Trick Cards (Brooklyn, NY: Master Technic Pub. Co., c1911), by Burling Hull
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Spirit Slate Writing and Kindred Phenomena (New York: Munn and Co., 1898), by Chung Ling Soo
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Ventriloquism Explained: and Juggler's Tricks, or Legerdemain, Exposed; With Remarks on Vulgar Superstitions, in a Series of Letters to an Instructor (Amherst, MA: J. S. and C. Adams, 1834) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Magician's Tour, Up and Down and Round About the Earth: Being the Life and Adventures of the American Nostradamus, Harry Kellar (Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry and Co., 1890), by Harry Kellar (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Hocus Pocus: or, The Whole Art of Legerdemain, in Perfection, By Which the Meanest Capacity May Perform the Whole Without the Help of a Teacher; Together with the Use of All the Instruments Belonging Thereto (11th edition; Philadelphia: Printed for M. Carey, 1795), by Henry Dean (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Automata Old and New (London: Imp. at the Chiswick press, 1893), by Conrad William Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber den Schachspieler des Herrn von Kempelen und Dessen Nachbildung (in German; Leipzig and Dresden: J. G. I. Breitkopf, 1789), by Joseph Friedrich Racknitz (page images at HathiTrust)

• Modern Magicians' Hand Book: An Up-to-Date Treatise on the Art of Conjuring (Chicago: F. J. Drake and Co., c1902), by William J. Hilliar, contrib. by Henry Ridgely Evans (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Secrets of Stage Conjuring (London: G. Routledge and Sons, 1900), by Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, ed. by Professor Hoffmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Lives of the Conjurors (London: Tinsley Bros., 1876), by Thomas Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin (New York: Publishers Printing Co., 1908), by Harry Houdini (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Keith ABC for Children (Boston: Publicity Department, Keith's Theatre, 1906), by James F. McNally, contrib. by B. F. Keith, illust. by Wallace Goldsmith (page images at Princeton)

• The Magazine of Magic (most volumes 1914-1922 online; US access only), ed. by Will Goldston (partial serial archives)
• Magic (UK-based magician's periodical, 1900-1920; selected issues online 1900-1907; US access only), ed. by Ellis Stanyon (partial serial archives)
• The Magic Wand (partial serial archives)
• The Magical Bulletin, contrib. by F. G. Thayer (partial serial archives)
• M-U-M, by Society of American Magicians (partial serial archives)

• Fifty New Card Tricks: A Comprehensive Description of the Continuous Front and Back Hand Palm With Cards and the Sensational New Rising Card Trick; Also Many New and Unpublished Tricks With Cards (New York: Wehman Bros., ca. 1900), by Howard Thurston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Howard Thurston's Card Tricks: Being a Fin de Siècle Manual on the Art of Conjuring With Cards, Including, Among Many Hitherto Unpublished Novel and Unique Experiments, a Comprehensive Description of the Continuous Front and Back-Hand Palm With Cards, and the Sensational New Rising Card Trick (Baltimore: I. and M. Ottenheimer, c1903), by Howard Thurston (page images at HathiTrust)
• New Era Card Tricks (London: W. and F. Hamley, c1897), by August Roterberg, illust. by L. R. Gossett (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sealed Mysteries: Explaining the Latest Card Mysteries and Spirit Tricks Made Public for the First Time, with Directions for Constructing Trick Cards (Brooklyn, NY: Master Technic Pub. Co., c1911), by Burling Hull
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Artifice, Ruse and Subterfuge at the Card Table: A Treatise on the Science and Art of Manipulating Cards (Chicago: F. J. Drake and Co., c1902), by S. W. Erdnase (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fortune-Telling by Cards (New York: R. P. Fenno and Company, ca. 1920), by P. R. S. Foli (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Absolute Key to Occult Science: The Tarot of the Bohemians, The Most Ancient Book in the World; For the Exclusive Use of Initiates (London: Chapman and Hall, 1892), by Papus, trans. by A. P. Morton
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• An Introduction to the Study of the Tarot, by Paul Foster Case (PDF at innerjourneybooks.com)
• The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, by Arthur Edward Waite (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Symbolism of the Tarot: Philosophy of Occultism in Pictures and Numbers, by P. D. Uspenskii, trans. by A. L. Pogossky (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Tarot: Its Occult Significance, Use in Fortune-Telling, and Method of Play, Etc., by S. L. MacGregor Mathers
  • PDF at innerjourneybooks.com
  • HTML at sacred-texts.com
• The Egyptian Revival: or, The Evercoming Son in the Light of the Tarot, by Frater Achad (HTML at hermetic.com)

• HIV-Negative: How the Uninfected Are Affected by AIDS (1995), by William I. Johnston (HTML at std.com)
• HIV and Psychiatry: Training and Resource Manual (first edition, ca.1997), ed. by Marie-Josée Brouillette and Kenneth Citron (frame-dependent PDF files in Canada)

• English Composition as a Happening (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2002), by Geoffrey Michael Sirc (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• The Psychology of Advertising in Theory and Practice: A Simple Exposition of the Principles of Psychology in Their Relation to Successful Advertising (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1921), by Walter Dill Scott (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Joe Camel With Feathers: How the NRA With Gun and Tobacco Industry Dollars Uses its Eddie Eagle Program to Market Guns to Kids (Washington: Violence Policy Center, 1997; two appendices omitted), by Susan Glick and Josh Sugarmann (HTML at vpc.org)

• Psychoanalytic Aesthetics: The British School, by Nicola Glover (HTML at psychoanalysis-and-therapy.com)

• Invisible Wounds of War: Psychological and Cognitive Injuries, Their Consequences, and Services to Assist Recovery (2008), ed. by Terri L. Tanielian and Lisa Jaycox (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• The World and the Bo Tree (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1991), by Helen Bevington (page images at HathiTrust)

• Live Coding: A User's Manual (Cambrige, MA and London: MIT Press, c2022), by Alan F. Blackwell, Emma Cocker, Geoff Cox, Alex McLean, and Thor Magnusson (multiple formats with commentary at toplap.org)

• Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill (revised edition, 1988), by Travis Bogard (HTML at archive-it.org)

• Mandela's Dark Years: A Political Theory of Dreaming (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015), by Sharon Sliwinski (HTML with commentary at umn.edu)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.