I became a member of the Houdini Historical Center in 1995 and was fortunate enough to visit the Houdini Historical Center Museum in Appleton Wisconsin in 1998, where I picked up some of the many items found in their catalog.
Thought it would be fun to share pages from the catalog over a series of posts, along with the catalog items in my collection. We previously looked at Pages 1 and 2. Today we look at Page 3.
Catalog items in HHCE Collection:
Last year John Cox at Wild About Houdini did an excellent deep dive post on the King of Cards Poster and its reproductions:
That led me to search for and eventually find for my collection, the extremely rare 1961 (first reproduction) King of Cards poster by Tommy Windsor.
The poster came folded up into an insurance policy,
along with Tommy Windsor’s Patter for an effect,
And 12 ways to use the Houdini Posters.
I became a member of the Houdini Historical Center in 1995 and was fortunate enough to visit the Houdini Historical Center Museum in Appleton Wisconsin in 1998, where I picked up some of the many items found in their catalog.
Thought it would be fun to share pages from the catalog over a series of posts, along with the catalog items in my collection. We previously looked at Page 1. Today we look at Page 2.
Catalog items in HHCE Collection:
I became a member of the Houdini Historical Center in 1995 and was fortunate enough to visit the Houdini Historical Center Museum in Appleton Wisconsin in 1998, where I picked up some of the many items found in their catalog.
Thought it would be fun to share pages from the catalog over a series of posts, along with the catalog items in my collection.
Page 1
Catalog items in HHCE Collection:
The following is the description of the above book that sold at Raptis Rare Books:
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1922.
First edition, second printing of Houdini’s guide to the whole art of performing with paper. Octavo, original cloth, full color frontispiece, illustrated with engravings and figures within the text. Warmly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “With best wishes for a merry xmas & Happy New Year xmas 1924 Houdini.” In very good condition with a strong signature from Houdini. Rare and desirable.
Houdini’s Paper Magic was first published in April 1922. Below are a couple ads from the Sphinx.
While Houdini published numerous books throughout his career, there were some books on Magic, Escape, Superstition, and Witchcraft that never got published as planned due to his untimely death. More info on these works can be found in The Zanetti Mystery Plus candidates for ghostwriting the story that was released on Christmas Day.
H A P P Y N E W Y E A R !