Group of 19 Pitch Books and Pamphlets on Escape Artists. American and English, ca. 1900s?30s. Including pitch books by Houdini imitators and other escape artists (?Oudini,? Prof. Karlemann, Prof. J. Day, The Great Van Tone); works on escapes by Burling Hull (?The Challenge Handcuff Act,? with blueprint enclosed), Hereward Carrington, C. Samuel Campbell, Henry Percival; and others.