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Houdini, Harry
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3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description
- A Magician Among the Spirits. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1924
- paper, ink
8vo. Photographic frontispiece portrait of Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 15 photographic plates, in-text illustrations, publisher's blue cloth gilt; light browning, ink mark on pp. 205-206, extremities lightly rubbed, some fading to spine, light soiling to boards. With 29 May 1923 dinner menu and seating chart from The Friars (110 West 48th Street, New York) SIGNED BY HOUDINI, Joseph Greenbaum, and 8 other guests laid in.
Catalogue Note
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED AND TWICE-SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper: "To my good friend | Joseph Greenbaum | Best wishes | Houdini | July 12-13-15-1924 | May my book always bring back pleasant memories of the author | H."