HOUDINI, Harry (Erik Weisz, 1874 ? 1926). Tintype Portrait of Houdini as a Young Man. [New York?], ca. 1891. Full-length image of a youthful Houdini, likely taken at Coney Island, seated on a bench and wearing a boater, bow tie, and evening clothes, with a seaside backdrop featuring the Coney Island Elephant hotel. A faint smile appears on his face. 3 ? x 2 3/8?. Two corners clipped, crackling to emulsion in lower margin. Very good. A rare and early portrait of the great magician in his teenage years, perhaps the only example extant. A candid photograph of the magician as a young man, in the years before becoming a professional magician and escape artist, this is among the earliest portraits of Houdini we have offered at auction.