ISBN10: 0060169788, ISBN13: 9780060169787, [publisher: Harpercollins, New York] Hardcover First Edition Until now there has not been an adequate biography of Houdini. Kenneth Silverman, author of prizewinning biographies of Cotton Mather and Edgar A. Poe, has drawn on fresh information to produce a fascinating and rich account of Houdini's life. Drawing on scrapbooks and diaries that no other biographer has used, as well as stenographic transcripts, court records, and hundreds of unpublished notes and letters, Silverman treats in depth many unfamiliar facets of Houdini's career -p Houdini as aviator, fight fan, author, filmmaker, book collector, and fraud-buster. He reveals for the first time Houdini's affair with the widow of a famous American writer and offers new information about his early circus days, and his sudden death at the age of fifty-two. Enhanced by more than one hundred photographs of Houdini and his escapes, many never before or rarely published, "Houdini!!!" is a penetrating study of a legendary performer. Illustrated. Stated First Edition and first printing with full number line. Fine hardcover in a near fine, mylar covered, unclipped dust jacket.
[Foxboro, MA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1996]