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• Magicians
• Juvenile fiction

• Frank Merriwell's Own Company: or, Barnstorming in the Middle West (New York: Street and Smith, c1898), by Burt L. Standish (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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

• The Lives of the Conjurors (London: Tinsley Bros., 1876), by Thomas Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
• Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: A Complete Exposé, by Harry Houdini
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text

• Lives of the Necromancers: or, An account of the Most Eminent Persons in Successive Ages, Who Have Claimed for Themselves, or to Whom Has Been Imputed by Others, the Exercise of Magical Power (London: Frederick J. Mason, 1834), by William Godwin (Gutenberg text)
• Memoirs of Robert-Houdin, Ambassador, Author, and Conjuror (second edition; London: Chapman and Hall, 1860), by Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, trans. by Lascelles Wraxall (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
• The Famous Houdini: The Original Jail Breaker and Hand Cuff King (ca. 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Romance of Sorcery (London: Methuen and Co., c1914), by Sax Rohmer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin (New York: Publishers Printing Co., 1908), by Harry Houdini (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Adventurous Life of a Versatile Artist: Houdini (revised edition, with movie stills; New York: Audubon Printers, 1922)
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at archive.org
  • 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)

• Doctor Faustus (multiple versions), by Christopher Marlowe (HTML at Perseus)
• The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (based on the 1604 quarto, with some later amendments and footnotes), by Christopher Marlowe, ed. by Alexander Dyce (Gutenberg text)
• The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (1616 quarto), by Christopher Marlowe, ed. by Alexander Dyce (Gutenberg text)
• The Tempest, by William Shakespeare (HTML with commentary at folger.edu)
• The Tempest (Old-Spelling Shakespeare series; London: Chatto and Windus; New York: Duffield and Co., 1908), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Frederick James Furnivall, contrib. by F. W. Clarke (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Tempest (London: Oxford University Press, 1914), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. J. Craig (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Tempest (with annotations and scene index), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Philip Weller (HTML at Shakespeare Navigators)
• The Tempest (1674 edition), by William Shakespeare (page images here at Penn)

• Hermes Beckons: A Tale of Alchemy and Magic (c2006), by John Caris (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)
• The King of the Conjurors (London: J. Blackwood and Co., n.d.), by James Skipp Borlase (multiple formats at Google)
• Beyond World's End (included on a Baen CD image), by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 65 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 65 MB

• Memoirs of Robert-Houdin, Ambassador, Author, and Conjuror (second edition; London: Chapman and Hall, 1860), by Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, trans. by Lascelles Wraxall (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin (New York: Publishers Printing Co., 1908), by Harry Houdini (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• 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)

• M-U-M, by Society of American Magicians (partial serial archives)

• Houdini, the Man Who Walked Through Walls (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1959), by William Lindsay Gresham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Adventurous Life of a Versatile Artist: Houdini (revised edition, with movie stills; New York: Audubon Printers, 1922)
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Famous Houdini: The Original Jail Breaker and Hand Cuff King (ca. 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Thorny Path, by Hesba Stretton (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Pyxie: A Little Boy of the Pines (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1932), by Ethel Calvert Phillips, illust. by Maginel Wright Barney (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Blue Ghost Mystery (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1960), by John Blaine (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Sue: A Little Heroine, by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg text)
• Lenny, the Orphan: or, Trials and Triumphs (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, c1869), by Margaret Hosmer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Tim and His Friends (London: Religious Tract Society, ca. 1892) (page images at Florida)

• The Dingo Boys, by George Manville Fenn, illust. by W. S. Stacey (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• First in the Field: A Story of New South Wales, by George Manville Fenn, illust. by W. Rainey (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Jack Harkaway and His Son's Adventures in Australia (complete; Chicago: M. A. Donohue and Co., n.d.), by Bracebridge Hemyng (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Shuttle, by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Gutenberg text and Librivox audio)
• The Shuttle (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1907), by Frances Hodgson Burnett (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Sea Change (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1884), by Flora L. Shaw, illust. by Mary Ellen Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Frank Merriwell on the Road: or, The All-Star Combination (New York: Street and Smith, c1898), by Burt L. Standish (Gutenberg text)

• The Rover Boys in the Mountains: or, A Hunt for Fun and Fortune (1902), by Edward Stratemeyer (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• At Whispering Pine Lodge, by Lawrence J. Leslie (Gutenberg text)
• The Go Ahead Boys in the Island Camp, by Ross Kay (Gutenberg text)
• The Motor Girls in the Mountains: or, The Gypsy Girl's Secret (New York: Goldsmith Pub. Co., c1919), by Margaret Penrose (Gutenberg text)
• Tom Slade at Temple Camp, by Percy Keese Fitzhugh (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Minna Raymond, or, Self-Sacrifice: A Tale for the Young (London and New York: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1864), by Alfred Elwes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dickory Dock, by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Jessica's First Prayer (with color illustrations; London: Religious Tract Society. n.d.), by Hesba Stretton (PDF files with commentary at Roehampton)

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