Houdiniana & The Davenport Magic Collection
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Lot 74
Houdini, Harry. Scrapbook of Houdiniana and Other Magic Ephemera. Edmund W. Younger [compiler], 1900
Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500
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Houdini, Harry. Scrapbook of Houdiniana and Other Magic Ephemera. Edmund W. Younger [compiler], 1900s. Approximately 36 pages (8vo) in a French grammar book. Including two early Houdini pitchbooks (one the cover only) both titled сSensational Perplexer!о and bearing portraits of Houdini centrally, referring to him as сThe Mysteriarch.о The second pitchbook (four pages, including a full page illustration of Houdini) authored by сE.W.Yо _ almost certainly the scrapbookНs compiler, E.W. Younger; photographic and illustrated clippings (ca. 1905) of Houdini related to appearances in Germany; a six-page account (illustrated) of the сMirror Cuffsо escape published by The Daily Mirror (Mar. 18, 1904); a three-page account (illustrated) on Houdini published by The Sheffield Daily Independent (Jan. 20, 1904); with other miscellaneous ephemera of the period including two Edmund Younger magic programs (as Li Chung Soo); a four page booklet, сLife of Yangar/ West African Wonder Workerо; an ALS from Lindhorst Magic (St. Louis, Mo.) to Younger; a pictorial C. Barnard сModern Card Manipulatorо engagement flyer; handwritten instructions for the сNew Wine and Water Trickо and other instruction sheets; and other clippings, most pictorial. Mildly soiled; margins ragged, sometimes resulting in loss of text.
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