Other than that, book set is in LIKE NEW condition.The actor is in negotiations to star in the Lionsgate movie, which is moving fast and hoping to start lensing in November. IMPORTANT: Former owner has pasted small Houdini photos inside front cover. USED, 2 Hardcovers w/dust jackets, in foil embossed slipcase. Each book is numbered (this copy is #359) and only 1,000 sets have been produced.

The Secret Life of Houdini Laid Bare with 333 pages and a beautiful dust jacket, has a different colored frontis piece also signed by the authors. Packaged in a beautiful slipcase you will receive a first edition of The Secret Life of Houdini with a colored frontis piece signed by both authors.

And scattered throughout the book are more than seventy rare photographs relating to the career of the Great Houdini.įans of magic history will find that reading both books together will bring each one to life. Plus, all of the material that was edited out of the biography appears in Houdini Laid Bare for the first time. The Secret Life of Houdini Laid Bare provides a fascinating peek into the voluminous files that were collected from all parts of the world. The authors have now compiled all of their notes and sources into a beautiful companion volume. Did Houdini really work for the Secret Service? Did he sometimes rely on confederates to accomplish his escapes? Were ardent spiritualists in some way involved in his untimely death? Today, a full year after its release, experts are still debating the claims put forth in this ground-breaking biography. The Secret Life of Houdini by William Kalush and Larry Sloman is perhaps the most controversial book ever written about Harry Houdini.

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