Harry Houdini: The Adventurous Life Of A Versatile Artiste -

[n.p.]; [n.p.], c. 1906. 63 pp. Yellow pictorial stapled wraps with numerous (25+) photographs and illustrations. VG (soiling, a touch of fraying of wrappers near staples, edgewear). An early analysis of Houdini, the Worlds Handcuff King and amazing Prison Breaker (p. 1), focused on An Accurate Account of Every Week and Month That Houdini Has Spent Abroad From 1900 to His Return to America, 1906, with accounts of Houdini suing the Cologne Police for libel, his escapes from triple-locked cells and how he picked the mirror handcuffs in one hour and ten minutes, and his escape from a Boston Prison in sixteen minutes. Included as well are nine limericks about Houdini breaking out of the Boston prison. Scarce. No copies in commerce and only 6 holdings per OCLC (LOC, Wisconsin, Boston Athenaeum, Dartmouth, Peabody Essex Museum, Buffalo and Erie County Library).