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First Edition of Harry Houdini's A Magician Among the Spirits; Lengthily Signed by Him
HOUDINI, Harry.
A Magician Among the Spirits.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1924.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, top stain yellow, frontispiece of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Houdini, illustrated. Lengthily signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Best wishes Houdini and alls well 3/11/25 Cleveland O." On 9 March 1925, illusionist and escape artist Harry Houdini began a two-week engagement at Cleveland's Palace Theatre, with the first devoted to his escape act and the second to debunking spiritualists. The last of Houdini's books to be published in his lifetime, A Magician Among the Spirits, was the culmination of over thirty years of studying and debunking occult phenomena, in particular spiritualists, whom Houdini considered to be little more than con artists. On 10 March, Houdini, County Prosecutor Edward C. Stanton, and a representative from the Cleveland Press went undercover at a seance conducted by spiritualist George Renner, whose gatherings included floating trumpets supposedly controlled by spirits. As the lights went down, Houdini smeared the trumpets with lamp soot, then, as the trumpets began to rise, suddenly turned on a flashlight, revealing Renner's face and hands covered in soot and proving that it was he who was controlling the "floating" trumpets. Renn...
Price: $8,200.00 Item Number: 152249
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First edition of Don Seitz's Artemus Ward; inscribed by him to Harry Houdini and with Houdini's ownership signature
SEITZ, Don. [Harry Houdini].
Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne): A Biography and Bibliography.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1919.
First edition of Seitz's biography of America's first stand-up comedian, Charles Farrar Browne, from Harry Houdini's famed library of magic. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Ward, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Harry Houdini with the very best wishes of the author Don C. Seitz." Additionally signed by Houdini, "Harry Houdini." Born in Waterford, Maine, Charles Farrar Browne began to attract large audiences as a lecturer and soon took on the stage name, Artemus Ward, who was historically a favorite author of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. When Browne performed in Virginia City, Nevada, he met Mark Twain and the two became friends. In near fine condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 127633
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"What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes": First Edition of Harry Houdini's The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin; Signed by Him
HOUDINI, Harry.
The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin.
New York: The Publishers Printing Co, 1908.
First edition of this work by Houdini regarding his one-time idol. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Houdini, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Harry Houdini on the front free endpaper. Bookplate to the front pastedown, in near fine condition. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $3,250.00 Item Number: 99655
