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[Houdini – Photographs] Sixteen later photographs of Houdini. Including two showing Houdini escaping from a straitjacket (ca. 1950s); a variety of later bust portraits; an original portrait of Houdini’s sister, Gladys, in her later years (ca. 1960s); pictures of Houdini’s handcuffed wrists, his casket, and an early Houdini poster; and reprints of two early images mounted on cardstock stamped with the address of James Randi on their versos. The largest 8 x 10”. Good.


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Date:
2014-08-23

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