18: Conjuring, James Randi, Esq

While looking through the Games section of Feldman Books in Menlo Park, CA, I ran across some magic texts. This is the one I picked up. A wizard-by-wizard history of conjuring, with the excellent subtitle "Being a Definitive History of the Venerable Arts of Sorcery, Prestidigitation, Wizardry, Deception, & Chicanery and of the Mountebanks & Scoundrels Who Have Perpetrated These Subterfuges on a Bewildered Public, in Short, Magic!"

So, good times. A little shallow at times, but that's what you get when you cram this long an era into one book. Good place to see lots of names for the first time.