Abbott/Joseffy Project Bibliography

One of these days, I’m going to write a novel about David Abbott and early 20th century Omaha, NE (my hometown). Or maybe a book about Joseffy and his travels with the Lyceum. Maybe both. Who knows? I don’t.

Related tags: Abbott Project, magic

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Magic and Related Subjects, Non-Fiction

• Abbott, David P. – Behind the Scenes with the Mediums
• Abbott, David P. w/ Teller & Todd Karr – House of Mystery
• Abbott, David P. – The History of a Strange Case
• Abbott, David P. – The Marvelous Creations of Joseffy
• Abbott, David P. – The Spirit Portrait Mystery: Its Final Solution
• Brown, Derren, – Tricks of the Mind
• Browne, Sylvia – Adventures of a Psychic
• Cai, Ning – Who is Magic Babe Ning?
• Dunninger, Joseph – Magic and Mystery
• Farrington, Elijah – Revelations of a Spirit Medium
• Goldston, Will – Exclusive Magical Secrets
• Higher Read – Houdini: A Life Worth Reading
• Houdini, Harry – Miracle Mongers and their Methods
• Houdini, Harry – The Right Way to Do Wrong
• Jaher, David – The Witch of Lime Street
• Jarrow, Gail – The Amazing Harry Kellar
• Johnson, Karl – The Magician and the Cardsharp: The Search for America’s Greatest Sleight-of-Hand Artist
• Kreskin, T. A. & Michael McCarty – Conversations with Kreskin
• Lamont, Peter & Richard Wiseman – Magic in Theory
• Lamont, Peter – The Rise of the Indian Rope Trick
• Macknik, Stephen L.& Susana Martinez-Conde, Sandra Blakeslee – Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions
• Penn & Teller’s How to Play in Traffic
• Penn & Teller’s How to Play with Your Food
• Penn & Teller’s Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends
• Robinson, William E. – Spirit Slate Writing and Kindred Phenomena
• Spill, Steve – I Lie for Money
• Standage, Tom – The Turk
• Steinmeyer, Jim – The Glorious Deception
• Steinmeyer, Jim – Hiding the Elephant
• Steinmeyer, Jim – The Last Greatest Magician in the World
• Steinmeyer, Jim – “The Spider in the Flies”
• Stone, Alex – Fooling Houdini
• Thomas, Frankin A. – How to Hold Circles for the Developing Mediumship at Home
• Thomas, Frankin A. – Philosophy and Phenomena of Spiritualism

Magic and Related Subjects, Fiction

• Armstrong, Jon – Smoke & Mirrors
• Chabon, Michael – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
• Copperfield, David ed. – David Copperfield’s Beyond Imagination
• Copperfield, David ed. – David Copperfield’s Tales of the Impossible
• Gaspard, John – The Ambitious Card
• Gaspard, John – The Bullet Catch
• Gaspard, John – Miser’s Dream
• Gaspard, John – “The Invisible Assistant”
• Gold, Glen David – Carter Beats the Devil
• Goldman, William – Magic
• Lawrence, Iain – The Séance
• Lutes, Jason (writer) & Nick Bertozzi (Illustrator) – Houdini: The Handcuff King
• Kelly, Victoria – Mrs. Houdini
• Mason, Lisa – “Every Mystery Unexplained”
• Matheson, Richard – Now You See It . . .
• Millhauser, Steven – “Eisenheim the Illusionist”
• Prasil, Tim – Help for the Haunted
• Priest, Christopher – The Prestige
• Rawson, Clayton – Death from a Top Hat
• Selznick, Brian – The Houdini Box
• Stashower, Daniel – The Adventure of the Ectoplasmic Man
• Stern, Steve – “Hyman the Magnificent”

General History, Omaha, and the Midwest

• Menard, Orville D. – River City Empire: Tom Dennison’s Omaha
• Sandburg, Carl – Smoke and Steel & Slabs of the Sunburnt West
• Wheeler, Theodore – On the River, Down Where They Found Willy Brown

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Magic and Related Subjects, Non-Fiction

• Dunningers Complete Encyclopedia Of Magic by Joseph Dunninger
• Houdini on Magic by Harry Houdini
• The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini by Ruth Brandon
• World’s Best Card Tricks by Bob Longe
• The Expert at the Card Table: The Classic Treatise on Card Manipulation by S.W. Erdnase
• Linking Rings: William W. Durbin and the Magic and Mystery of America by James David Robenalt
• Facts, Frauds, & Phantasms: A Survey of the Spiritualist Movement by Georgess McHargue
• The Great Illusionists by Edwin A Dawses
• Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women by Ricky Jay
• …Memoirs and Confessions of a Stage Magician by Don & Joyce Brandon
• Adelaide Herrmann: Queen of Magic by  Adelaide Herrmann & Margaret B. Steele
• The Science of Illusions by Jacques Ninio

Magic and Related Subjects, Fiction

• The Spirit Cabinet by Paul Quarrington
• The Magician by Sol Stein
• The Final Confession of Mabel Stark by Robert Hough
• Eyeing the Flash: The Making of a Carnival Con Artist by Peter Fenton
• Inamorata by Jospeh Gangemi
• The Great Balsamo by Maurice Zolotow
• Club Deception by Sarah Skilton

General History, Omaha, and the Midwest

• A Dirty, Wicked Town: Tales of 19th Century Omaha by David L. Bristow
• Barrelhouse Boys by Joel Williamson
• Kings of Broken Things by Theodore Wheeler

* List does not include ebooks. A more complete list of what I own and what I want to read exists at Goodreads.