Houdini Auction: Posters, Handcuffs, Ephemera 2014-08-23 Auction - 286 Price Results - Potter & Potter Auctions in IL
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Plaster Bust of Harry Houdini. England, ca. 1902.Houdini’s Double Fold Death Defying Water Mystery.1909.Houdini’s German Slander Trial Archive, 1902.
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Houdini Auction: Posters, Handcuffs, Ephemera

Potter & Potter's summer auction will spotlight choice memorabilia related to the most famous magician and escape artist the world has ever known: Harry Houdini. Among the featured items are: -Lithographs, Broadsides and Challenges, featuring the iconic ?King of Cards? poster used in Houdini?s earliest days as a circus performer. -Photographs and Ephemera, among them Houdini family pictures, postcards, manuscripts, autographs and correspondence, including unpublished images and documents. -A Recently-Discovered Houdini Scrapbook, as well as a Houdini family scrapbook, and other personal artifacts. -Handcuffs, Magic Props, Locks, and Escape Devices, including unusual restraints used by Houdini and his brother, Hardeen. -Associated Memorabilia, chief among them documents related to Hardeen, as well as others magicians and celebrities who crossed Houdini?s path; and additional rare magicana.
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Cremer, W.H. The Secret Out. London: John Hamden: Cremer, W.H. The Secret Out. London: John Hamden Cotton, ca. 1891. Green cloth stamped in black and gold. Frontispiece, profusion of illutrations. 8vo. Ex-libris Oscar Teale. Good. Oscar Teale, a
0003: Cremer, W.H. The Secret Out. London: John HamdenEst. US$150-US$250
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Ernst and Carrington. Houdini and Conan Doyle: Ernst, Bernard M.L. and Hereward Carrington. Houdini and Conan Doyle. New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1932. Brown cloth stamped in gold. With the bookplate of Harry Houdini and the stamp of Edward
0006: Ernst and Carrington. Houdini and Conan DoyleEst. US$200-US$300
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Fowler, Samuel P. Salem Witchcraft. Boston, 1865: Fowler, Samuel P. Salem Witchcraft. Boston: William Veazie, 1865. One of 250 copies printed. Pebbled cloth, disbound. Title page engraving. 8vo. Bearing Houdini’s bookplate on the front pastedown.
0009: Fowler, Samuel P. Salem Witchcraft. Boston, 1865Est. US$100-US$200
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Houdini, Harry. Handcuff Tricks Exposed. ca. 1911: Houdini, Harry. Handcuff Tricks Exposed. [London], ca. 1911. Pictorial wrappers bearing the “Houdini for President” image surrounded by a red and yellow border. Illustrated with photographs. 8vo.
0017: Houdini, Harry. Handcuff Tricks Exposed. ca. 1911Est. US$800-US$1,200
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Houdini, Harry. A Magician Among the Spirits. SIGNED.: Houdini, Harry. A Magician Among the Spirits. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1924. Blue cloth gilt stamped with original dust jacket (tattered, taped, and torn). Frontispiece photograph of Houdini and
0019: Houdini, Harry. A Magician Among the Spirits. SIGNED.Est. US$1,200-US$1,500
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