'academic' Tarot books

Art and Arcana: Commentary on The Medieval Scapini Tarot - Ronald Decker

The Tarot: History, Mystery and Lore - Cynthia Giles

Association for Tarot Studies, Newsletter #42 "Tarot History in Brief" (article referenced from ATS' Tarotpedia, Online Encyclopedia of Tarot

http://association.tarotstudies.org/newsletters/news42.html

Jensen's book on A E Waite's deck (I forget the title just now...)

Huson: The Devil's Picturebook

Deleuze and Guattari? If you can read them, reading Tarot should be a cinch!

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A Wicked Pack of Cards - The Origins of the Occult Tarot (Decker, Therry, DePaulis, Dummett)

A History of The Occult Tarot (Decker, Dummett)