Houdini, Harry (Erik Weisz) | Presentation copy of Houdini's last book

Houdini, Harry (Erik Weisz)

A Magician Among the Spirits. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1924

8vo (237 x 161 mm). Frontispiece portrait of Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle, 19 photographic plates, leaf of errata and addendum tipped in; text very lightly browned. Publisher's gilt-lettered blue cloth; extremities a bit worn, spine faded. Publisher's printed dust-jacket; chipped and torn, likely supplied.

First edition; presentation copy, inscribed and signed on the front free endpaper: "to my friend Maurice Wolf. With compliments of Houdini June 27—1924 and alls well." Morris Wolf (Houdini mistakenly used the French spelling of his first name) was a Philadelphia lawyer and book collector, who counted A. S. W. Rosenbach among his clients.