[0-448-12546-3] 1977, 1977 Printing. (hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 192pp. 4to. Dust jacket very good, shows only the lightest of wear. Brown paper boards, gilt title to spine. There is a gift inscription to the front free endpaper; else is clean, crisp, tight, bright. Comprehensive perspective of the Houdini's life, the craft he practised, and the times in which he lived and worked. Richly illustrated with black and white photographs, playbills, posters, and Houdiana from many collections.

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Title

Houdini; His Life and Art

Publisher

Grosset & Dunlap, New York

ISBN 10

0448125463

ISBN 13

9780448125466

Binding

Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition

Dust Jacket Included

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Canadiana

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Synopsis

Houdini's motion picture career, crusade against mediumistic fraud, personal relationships, and character idiosyncracies are described as well as his many spectacular escape stunts

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