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This illustrated biography of Harry Houdini combines original artwork and archival artifactsincluding photographs, playbills and posters, letters, and even some of Houdinis own stage propsto bring the story of the worlds greatest escape artist to life. Readers will learn all about Houdinis unique rags-to-riches story, from his birth in a Hungarian ghetto to his death from a ruptured appendix at age fifty-two. The book details his career as an escape artist and explains how he evolved into the King of Handcuffs on the vaudeville circuit and became an international star as his escape attempts reached ever more elaborate and dangerous heights. Filled with little-known facts, this is the perfect book for readers interested in magic and the history of Houdini.
Hardback. English. Abrams. 2011. In Good Condition.
