Here's my card magic library. What books should I still get?

[DavidL11229]

I'm looking for suggestions for books I might enjoy or learn great things from. I am not a pro, but I worked in a magic shop for several years and I enjoy spending many hours practicing card sleights and reading magic books. I like close-up magic that I can perform very close-up for just a few people at a time.

I have certainly not mastered everything in the books that I have, but I am always looking to see what I might be missing. I welcome any suggestions, though mostly I am interested in books which are still easy to find. Hopefully in hard copy, but ebook is fine.

My card magic library more or less consists of:

Expert Card Technique
Encyclopedia of Card Tricks
Card Control (Buckley)
The Card Magic of Le Paul (Le Paul)
The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley Vol. 2
Stars of Magic
Counts, Cuts, Moves and Subtleties (Mentzer)
The Cardiste (Rusduck)
Tarbell Course in Magic Vol 1-7

Card College 1-5, The Art of Switching Decks, Confidences (Giobbi)
The Annotated Erdnase (Erdnase/Ortiz)
Revolutionary Card Technique, Cardially Yours (Marlo)
The Art of Astonishment Vol 1-3 (Harris)
Hand Crafted Card Magic Vol 1&2 (Behr)
The Paper Engine (Fisher)
The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings

Carneycopia (Carney)
Close Up Card Magic (Lorayne)
Paul Curry's World's Beyond
The Aretalogy of Vanni Bossi
The Five Points in Magic (Tamariz)

Memdeck stuff:

Mnemonica (Tamariz)
In Order to Amaze (Hartling)
Simply Simon (Aaronson)
Memorandum (Aragon)
Temporarily Out of Order (Redford)

Video of significance:

Foundations Vol 1-3 (England)
Lennart Green Master File
David's Cull (Garcia)
The Trilogy (Dan and Dave)
The Art of Card Manipulation Vol 1-3 (McBride)

Thanks,

Dave

 

[Maaz Hasan]

Marlo in Spades
The Royal Road!
The Card College Light Series.

 

[Josh Burch]

I'm looking for suggestions for books I might enjoy or learn great things from. I am not a pro, but I worked in a magic shop for several years and I enjoy spending many hours practicing card sleights and reading magic books. I like close-up magic that I can perform very close-up for just a few people at a time.

I have certainly not mastered everything in the books that I have, but I am always looking to see what I might be missing. I welcome any suggestions, though mostly I am interested in books which are still easy to find. Hopefully in hard copy, but ebook is fine.

My card magic library more or less consists of:

Expert Card Technique
Encyclopedia of Card Tricks
Card Control (Buckley)
The Card Magic of Le Paul (Le Paul)
The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley Vol. 2
Stars of Magic
Counts, Cuts, Moves and Subtleties (Mentzer)
The Cardiste (Rusduck)
Tarbell Course in Magic Vol 1-7

Card College 1-5, The Art of Switching Decks, Confidences (Giobbi)
The Annotated Erdnase (Erdnase/Ortiz)
Revolutionary Card Technique, Cardially Yours (Marlo)
The Art of Astonishment Vol 1-3 (Harris)
Hand Crafted Card Magic Vol 1&2 (Behr)
The Paper Engine (Fisher)
The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings

Carneycopia (Carney)
Close Up Card Magic (Lorayne)
Paul Curry's World's Beyond
The Aretalogy of Vanni Bossi
The Five Points in Magic (Tamariz)

Memdeck stuff:

Mnemonica (Tamariz)
In Order to Amaze (Hartling)
Simply Simon (Aaronson)
Memorandum (Aragon)
Temporarily Out of Order (Redford)

Video of significance:

Foundations Vol 1-3 (England)
Lennart Green Master File
David's Cull (Garcia)
The Trilogy (Dan and Dave)
The Art of Card Manipulation Vol 1-3 (McBride)

Thanks,

Dave

You've got a sweet collection for sure!

Some of my favorite stuff that you don't have is: Mathematical Magic by Persi Diaconis, any John Bannon Book, the Heirophant by Jon Racherbaumer, The Art of Astonishment by Paul Harris, Card Fictions by Pit Hartling, A Book in English by Woody Aragon, The Mind of David Berglas, all of Lee Asher's notes, Approaching Magic by David Regal, Anneman's Card Magic, Applesauce by Patrick Redford, anything by Simon Aronson, and the Essential Jay Sankey .

 

[RealityOne]

Tommy Wonder's Books of Wonder (out of print but pretty easy to find)
Guy Hollingsworth's Drawing Room Deceptions
Jack Lovick's Handsome Jack
Eric Mead's Tangled Web
Tom Stone's Vortex
David Acer's Random Acts of Magic
Jennings '67
The Secrets of Brother John Hammon
The Card Magic of Nick Trost
David Regal's Approaching Magic
Gaetan Bloom's Full Bloom

 

[DavidL11229]

Thanks for the help everyone.

Marlo in Spades
The Royal Road!

Marlo is such good stuff!
I actually did pick up Royal Road the other day. Haven't read it much. I learned from Tarbell and Expert Card Technique, but will check it out.

Some of my favorite stuff that you don't have is: Mathematical Magic by Persi Diaconis, Card Fictions by Pit Hartling.

Diaconis is my hero!
I liked In Order to Amaze so much that I just ordered Card Fictions directly from the author, he still has it available.

 

[DavidL11229]

Tommy Wonder's Books of Wonder (out of print but pretty easy to find)

I'm hoping the reprint rumor is true. The rest are now on my list.