Houdiniana & Magic Memorabilia
Sat, Apr 26, 2025 12:00PM EDT
Lot 276
BEY, Hamid (1897 – 1976). My Experiences Preceding 5000 Bur...
Estimate: $150 - $250
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BEY, Hamid (1897 ? 1976). My Experiences Preceding 5000 Burials. [Los Angeles]: The Coptic Fellowship of America, 1951. FOURTH EDITION. Publisher's pictorial wraps. Plated picturing the author. 140pp. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED on the title page by Hamid Bey. Sold with: a pictorial bi-fold brochure advertising Bey's performance at the Rialto Theatre, Chicago, where he will be buried alive for three hours and survive. Houdini famously survived an underwater burial in the Shelton Hotel pool in New York City (beating Bey's record), and also advertised but did not perform a ?buried alive" stunt as heralded on the poster offered in this sale as lot 4. Kevin Connolly Collection.
