KHRUSE, Khia Khan (fl. 1810 ? 20). Khia Khan Khruse, Chief of the Indian Jugglers. Greenwich: G.E. Allen, 1822. Early letterpress broadside listing the diverse tricks presented by Khruse, including the swallowing of pins which he will later reproduce from his eyes, the running of a race on the tops of twenty drinking glasses, protean transformations, blindfolded stunts, and a wide range of conjuring tricks (?legerdemain explored?), including frying an egg on a sheet of writing paper. 17 1/2 x 7 1/8?. Top margin cropped close, edges ragged, old folds. Hinged to a mat board at upper margin. A significant and early British conjuring broadside. See Exemplars, p. 318. This playbill was the basis of Ricky Jay?s introduction to Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women. Khruse was said to introduce the Indian Needle Trick ? most famously, a feature of Houdini ? in 1818.