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Sat, Apr 9, 2016 11:00AM EDT - Sun, Apr 10, 2016 11:00AM EDT
Lot 82

Houdini, Harry (Edwin Dearn, compiler). An Important Scrapbook of Houdiniana, Including Signed Items

Estimate: $4,000 - $5,000

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Houdini, Harry (Edwin Dearn, compiler). An Important Scrapbook of Houdiniana, Including Signed Items. Approximately 55 leaves, some disbound, plus enclosed materials, in a quarto maroon buckram binder with DearnНs handwritten spine and title labels laid down. Including a loose 1926 Typed Letter Signed, сHoudini,о to Dearn, on personal letterhead, regarding newspaper cuttings on mediums Houdini had sent, and a reference to the magician NicoliНs сprostitutionо of HoudiniНs name in South Africa; a pictorial Houdini bi-fold handbill (1920s) for the lecture-demonstration сCan the Dead Speak to the Living?о annotated by Houdini beside his portrait, сmy hair is not as longо; a 1923 clipping from the Houston Chronicle, сHarry Houdini Flays пSpiritН Communication,о signed, сRegards/Houdiniо; a 1925 Shubert Murat Houdini handbill; a 1925 TLS from Thurston Porta to Dearn regarding a Houdini handcuff escape he witnessed in 1906; a 1925 44th Street Theatre (New York) color program, 16 pages, featuring Houdini; a copy of The Houdini Messages (1929) by Fast, housed in a sleeve mounted on the front pastedown; with the remainder of the leaves filled with American, European, and Australian newspaper and magazine clippings, many illustrated, 1900s _ 20s (bulk 1920s), on Houdini neatly laid in by Dearn, often labeled with the publication and author.

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