Heavy book which will require extra overseas shipping. A Very Good Solidly Bound Copy with very Light Rubbing to Spine Edges and Corners. Original cream endpapers with surface creasing to bottom corner of front pastedown and owners name and address in Norwich written in pencil. Brick red cloth, gilt with picture on front of figure with scales holding a mask in front of a bust and on the spine a head within an oval frame with the words Robert. The Daily Mirror Challenge: In 1904, the London-based paper The Daily Mirror challenged Houdini to escape special handcuffs that Nathaniel Hart, a locksmith, had spent 5 years working on. These heavy cuffs, probably iron, measure 10 in length. The text of Handcuff secrets is complete from chapter one and the pages numbered 1 to 110, followed by a two page publishers list. A pair of handcuffs which were owned and used by master illusionist and escape artist Harry Houdini. He sent Houdini a telegram inviting him to join his Orpheum Circuit as an escape artist. The first page of text begins with the preface which has no page numbering but the verso is numbered x and pages continue to xvi. The Expert Handcuff Manipulator Taken from Ladies Home Journal, June 1918- Written by Harry Houdini Ropes Escapes Houdini, always the student, learned everything there was to know about. His shows brought excitement and thrills, and people everywhere loved him.
Handcuff Secrets is bound in after the index of the First Volume but appears to be missing a title page although a Half Title is printed on the reverse of the portrait frontis. Harry Houdini Timeline Timeline Description: Harry Houdini was a world famous magician and escape artist. Illustrated with photographs, drawings, reproductions of Theatre Bills etc. pp vii 333 including Index and 2 pages of Addenda and Corrigenda.
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