Martin Gardner,
Chapter 1: Hexaflexagons (pp. 1 - 14),
The Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles & Diversions,
Simon and Schuster, New York, 1959 (ISBN 0-671-63652-9 Pbk.).
Martin Gardner,
Chapter 2: Tetraflexagons (pp. 24 - 31),
The 2nd Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles
& Diversions,
Simon and Schuster, New York, 1961;
republished
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1987 (ISBN 0-226-28253-8(pbk).
Martin Gardner,
Chapter 7: The Combinatorics of Paper Folding (pp. 60 - 73),
Wheels, Life, and Other Mathematical Amusements,
W. H. Freeman and Company, New York, 1983 (ISBN 0-7167-1589-9 Pbk.).
A. S. Conrad,
``The Flexagon,''
RIAS Miscellaneous Report, Baltimore, Maryland, 1960.
(later renamed
``The Theory of the Flexagon,''
RIAS Technical Report 60-24, 1960).
Joseph S. Madachy,
Chapter 3: ``Fun with Paper,''
Madachy's Mathematical Recreations,
Dover Publications, Inc, New York, (1979).
Originally published as
Mathermatics on Vacation,
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York (1966).
Robert E. Neale,
``Self-Designing Tetraflexagons,''
in Elwyn Berlekamp and Tom Rodgers (editors),
The Mathemagician and Pied Puzzler,
pages 117-126,
A. K. Peters, Ltd., Natick, Massachussetts (1999).
H. Steinhaus,
Mathematical Snapshots,
Dover Publications, Inc, Mineola, New York, 1999.
(ISBN 0-486-40914-7) pp. 171-181.
(Reprint of an earlier Oxford edition, one of a series of reprints dating from 1950, the earlier of which do not include include the flexatube.)