📚 Ventriloquism

The voice that seems to come from elsewhere: the act, the dummies, and the long fascination with speaking without moving.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject ventriloquism in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	How to Become a Ventriloquist	Edgar Bergen	1938	6
	Ventriloquism for boys and girls	Douglas Houlden	1958	6
	Art and Ventriloquism	David Goldblatt	2014	5
	Ventriloquism As A Hobby And How To Make It Pay	Sydney Vereker	1938	4
	I can see your lips moving	Valentine Vox	1981	4
	Ventriloquism made easy	Paul Stadelman	1988	4
	Wehman's Wizard's manual	W. E. Skinner	1895	3
	The Whole Art of Ventriloquism	Arthur Prince	1920	3
	Ventriloquism for fun and profit	Paul Winchell	1954	3
	Ventriloquism made easy	John Mendoza	1955	3
	With hidden noise	Stephen Feeke	2004	3
	Ventriloquism made easy	Frederic Hardy	1866	2
	The practical magician and ventriloquist's guide	Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)	1876	2
	How I became a ventriloquist	Lee Professor.	1880	2
	Practical ventriloquism and its sister arts	Robert Ganthony	1893	2
	Practical ventriloquism	Robert Ganthony	1904	2
	Art of ventriloquism	George W. Callahan	1930	2
	A.B.C. of ventriloquism	Douglas Craggs	1944	2
	Song, Speech and Ventriloquism	Larry Kettelkamp	1967	2
	Ventriloquism	Darryl Hutton	1975	2
	Kid show ventriloquism	Mark Wade	1996	2
	Art and ventriloquism	Goldblatt, David	2005	2
	All By My Selves	Jeff Dunham	2010	2
	Le ventriloque ou l'engastrimythe	La Chapelle M. de	1772	1
	Ventriloquism	Unknown author	1801	1
	The European ventriloquist's exhibition	Unknown author	1808	1
	Ventriloquism	Potter Mr	1815	1
	The adventures of a ventriloquist, or, The rogueries of Nicholas	William Thomas Moncrieff	1822	1
	The adventures of a ventriloquist, or, The rogueries of Nicholas	William Thomas Moncrieff	1822	1
	Observations on ventriloquism	Dugald Stewart	1828	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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