Jean-Eugéne Robert-Houdin

Memoirs of Robert-Houdin: Ambassador, Author, and Conjurer

Geo. G. Evans, Philadelphia 1860.

Persifor Frazer

Mind Reading

Social Science Association, Philadelphia, 12 maggio 1875.

Nevil Monroe Hopkins

Twentieth Century Magic and the Construction of Modern Magical Apparatus

David McKay, Philadelphia 1898.

Ellis Stanyon

Card tricks

The Penn publishing company, Philadelphia 1900.

Henry Davenport Northrop

Popular pastimes for amusement and instruction

National Publishing Co., Philadelphia 1901.

Charles Lang Neil

The modern conjurer and drawing-room entertainer

J.B. Lippincott, Philadelphia 1902.

Ellis Stanyon

Magic. In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones here presented for the first time

The Penn Publishing Company, Philadelphia 1903.

Angelo Lewis Professor Hoffmann

Modern Magic

David McKay, Philadelphia 1904 (I ed. 1876).

Ellis Stanyon

Magic. In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones

The Penn Publishing Company, Philadelphia 1910.

Will Goldston

Tricks of the Masters

David McKay, Philadelphia 1942.