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Sat, Apr 9, 2016 11:00AM EDT - Sun, Apr 10, 2016 11:00AM EDT
Lot 37

[Houdini, Harry] Catalogue of Illusion Apparatus Property of the Late Chung Ling Soo [HoudiniНs Copy

Estimate: $2,500 - $3,500

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[Houdini, Harry] Catalogue of Illusion Apparatus Property of the Late Chung Ling Soo [HoudiniНs Copy]. Clapham: Baldwin, 1920. Printed wraps. 20 pages. Approximately 8vo (6 _ x 8о). Front wrap annotated in pencil by Houdini and initialed сHHо; two contemporary news clippings concerning the auction tipped-in; prices realized written in pencil by unknown hand. AuctioneerНs tipped-in notice annotated on the reverse by an employee or assistant of HoudiniНs, reading, сMy first dayѓ was to secure this catalogue for Harry Handcuff Houdini/[Illegible signature].о Minor smudging on front, old folds, nicks at corners.

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