Richard Kaufman

Richard Kaufman is the foremost author and publisher of books on magic in the last 30 years. As writer, illustrator, designer, and publisher, he changed the face of publishing in the magic world in the late 1970s. Mr. Kaufman is also an internationally recognized sleight-of-hand artist and has starred in several DVDs on the subject, as well as appearing on the first two seasons of Criss Angel's TV show, "Mindfreak" and writing the trick section of Angel's book "Mindfreak: Secret Revelations." He is currently the editor and publisher of Genii, The Conjurors' Magazine -- the oldest independent magazine in the world devoted to the interests of magic and magicians. It can be found at www.geniimagazine.com. Genii operates The Genii Forum, an internet discussion group open to all (www.geniimagazine.com/forum) and also MagicPedia, the largest online encyclopedia of magic (www.magicpedia.net).

Bibliography of books written and/or published by Richard Kaufman:

* 1977 The Interlocked Production of Coins (Richard Kaufman)

* 1977 Balls! Lessons in Side Arm Snookery (Richard Kaufman)

* 19?? The Second Now You See It, Now You Don't! (Bill Tarr)

* 1978 On the Up and Up (Richard Kaufman)

* 1979 CoinMagic (Richard Kaufman)

* 1980 The Gene Maze Card Book (Richard Kaufman)

* 1981 CardMagic (Richard Kaufman)

* 1981 CardWorks by Richard Kaufman)

* 1982 The Complete Works of Derek Dingle by Richard Kaufman)

* 1982 New York Magic Symposium Collection One (Richard Kaufman)

* 1983 New York Magic Symposium Collection Two (Richard Kaufman)

* 1983 Richard's Almanac Volume 1 (Hardcover Reprint of Volume One)

* 1984 Abstract (Richard Kaufman: Lecture Notes)

* 1985 David Roth's Expert Coin Magic (Richard Kaufman)

* 1985 Don England's Gaffed To The Hilt! (Jon Racherbaumer)

* 1986 Sankey Panky (Richard Kaufman)

* 1986 Compleat Invocation, Vols.1 and 2 (Tony Raven and Tony Andruzzi)

* 1986 Spirit Theater (Eugene Burger)

* 1987 The Uncanny Scot: Ron Wilson (Richard Kaufman)

* 1987 The Performance of Close-Up Magic (Eugene Burger)

* 1987 Lim-Tricks (Jeff Sheridan)

* 1988 Apocalypse, Vol.1 (Richard Kaufman and Harry Lorayne)

* 1987 The New Jinx (Bill Madsen)

* 1988 New Magic of Japan (Phil Goldstein and Richard Kaufman)

* 1988 Sawa's Library of Magic, Vol. 1 (Richard Kaufman)

* 1989 Williamson's Wonders (Richard Kaufman)

* 1989 The Secrets of Brother John Hamman (Richard Kaufman)

* 1989 The Experience of Magic (Eugene Burger)

* 1990 100% Sankey (Richard Kaufman)

* 1990 Gary Kurtz: Unexplainable Acts (Richard Kaufman)

* 1990 The Amazing Miracles Of Shigeo Takagi (Richard Kaufman)

* 1991 Life Savers (Michael Weber)

* 1991 Strange Ceremonies (Eugene Burger)

* 1991 Card Craft (J.K. Hartman)

* 1991 Road Hustler (Robert Prus)

* 1991 Houdini's Conjurer's Monthly Magazine

* 1992 Five Times Five: Japan (Richard Kaufman Kaufman)

* 1992 The Collected Almanac (Richard Kaufman)

* 1992 Compleat Invocation, Vol. 3 (Tony Andruzzi)

* 1992 Totally Out of Control (Chris Kenner)

* 1992 Show Time at the Tom Foolery (Richard Kaufman

* 1993 Beyond Compere (Terry Seabrooke)

* 1993 Martin Gardner Presents (Martin Gardner)

* 1993 Secrets Draun from Underground (Richard Kaufman)

* 1993 Tarbell 8 (Harlan Tarbell, Steve Burton, Richard Kaufman)

* 1993 A Tarbell Scrapbook (Richard Kaufman)

* 1993 Ibidem, Vol 1 (P. Howard Lyons)

* 1994 Greater Magic (John Northern Hilliard)

* 1994 Gene Maze and The Art Of Bottom Dealing (Stephen Hobbs)

* 1994 Great Balloons! (Jean Merlin)

* 1994 Mahatma

* 1995 Much Ado About Something (Karrell Fox)

* 1995 Duffie's Card Compulsions (Peter Duffie)

* 1995 After Craft: More Card Trickery (J.K. Hartman)

* 1995 The Discoverie of Witchcraft (Reginald Scot)

* 1995 Magic of Edward Victor's Hands (Rae Hammond)

* 1995 Magic of the Hands Trilogy (Edward Victor)

* 1995 Facsimile 1 (Jon Racherbaumer)

* 1995 New Card Control Systems (Joseph K. Schmidt)

* 1996 Magie Duvivier (Jon Racherbaumer)

* 1996 Lou Gallo: The Underground Man (Richard Kaufman and Mark Phillips)

* 1996 A Magician Among the Spirits (Unpublished First Draft by Harry Houdini)

* 1996 Seance (Scott Davis)

* 1996 Facsimile 2 (Jon Racherbaumer)

* 1996 Notes to Houdini!!! (Ken Silverman)

* 1996 Stanyon's Magic (Ellis Stanyon)

* 1996 Stanyon's Serial Lessons in Conjuring (Ellis Stanyon)

* 1997 Jennings '67 (Richard Kaufman)

* 1997 Arcade Dreams: Ed Marlo (Jon Racherbaumer)

* 1997 The Feints & Temps of Harry Riser (Ed Brown)

* 1997 Folding Money Fooling (Robert Neale)

* 1997 Greater Artful Dodges of Eddie Fields (Jon Racherbaumer)

* 1997 Effortless Card Magic (Peter Duffie)

* 1997 Facsimile 3 (Jon Racherbaumer)

* 1997 Charles Bertram The Court Conjurer (Edwin Dawes)

* 1997 The Looking Glass (Kaufman, Racherbaumer, and Hobbs)

* 1998 The Book or Don't Forget to Point (Flicking Fingers)

* 1998 Vis a Vis: A Jack Avis Book (Jack Avis and John Derris)

* 1998 The Mysteries Of My Life: Rene Lavand (Kaufman and Lavand)

* 1998 Street Magic (Jeff Sheridan and Edward Claflin)

* 1998 Five Times Five: Scotland (Peter Duffie)

* 1998 The Now You See It, Now You Don't! Notebook (Bill Tarr)

* 1998 Stodare: The Enigma Variations (Edwin Dawes)

* 1999 Trickery Treats (J.K. Hartman)

* 2000 Mastering the Art of Magic (Eugene Burger)

* 2000 Facsimile 4 (Jon Racherbaumer)

* 2000 Other Voices: Ventriloquism from BC to TV (Stanley Burns)

* 2001 The Lost Notebooks of John Northern Hilliard

* 2002 Sexy Magic (James Hodges)

* 2002 Stanley Collins (Edwin Dawes)

* 2003 David Copperfield's Project Magic Handbook (Richard Kaufman)

* 2005 Seriously Silly (David Kaye)

* 2005 One Hundred by Warlock (Elizabeth Warlock)

* 2006 The Vernon Touch (Dai Vernon)

* 2008 Mindfreak: Secret Revelations (Criss Angel, Laura Morton, Richard Kaufman)