Gill,Robert: Magic as a Performing Art
©1976 Bowker Publishing Company
Hardcover, 252 pages
ISBN-13: 9780859350389
ISBN-10: 085935038X

Magic as a Performing Art: Bibliography of Conjuring (College of Librarianship, Wales bibliographies)

Contents

vii - Foreword by Bayard Grimshaw
ix - Introduction
xiv - Acknowledgments
xv - How to Use this Bibliogaphy
xvii - General Bibliographies .on Magic
1 - Main Entries
201 - Availability of Material
205 - Subject Index
218 - Name Index
227 - Title Index

This is the first bibliography of performing magic to contain fully annotated entries evaluating the literature. It includes many rare and difficult to find publications. excluding only material of doubtful merit. The author, Robert Gill. lists and describes over 1,000 books and pamphlets on conjuring published during the past forty years. and has succeeded
in producing a practical guide to the literature of magic for both performers and librarians. The emphasis is on readily available publications in the English language, including English translations of foreign works. For each book listed Mr Gill provides a description of contents and an assessment of value to performers, as well as giving standard Bibliographical details.

The contents of this book include a foreword by Bayard Grimshaw, a preface by the author, notes on how to use the bibliography, and three indexes: the subject index analyses in depth the subjects discussed in the books listed, the name index gives the names of all persons, societies and organizations appearing in the bibliography, and the title index provides an alphabetical listing of all books and pamphlets contained in the book. Mr Gill also
gives hints on tracing the producers of books on magic.

Robert Gill is both a professional librarian and a performing conjuror who also finds time to contribute articles on magic to leading journals in the field. He prepared this bibliography while studying at the College of Librarianship Wales, Aberystwyth, and received for it the 1975 Bowker Bibliography Prize awarded to library students for a work in the field of bibliography and librarianship.