$2,600
Houdini, Harry (Ehrich Weiss). The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin. New York, 1908. First Edition. Publisher’s pictorial cloth. Frontispiece of Houdini behind tissue guard. A unique trophy copy from Rex Conklin’s library, filled with signatures and ephemera, bearing on the front pastedown a signed photographic postcard of Houdini, mounted below an inscription by that famous conjuror’s wife, Bess, to the original owner of the book, historian and antiquarian librarian Cuyler Reynolds, and accompanied by the mailing cover addressed from Houdini’s home in New York to Reynolds in Albany. Houdini bookplate mounted on the flyleaf. Dedication page inscribed and signed by Howard Thurston in green ink beneath a mounted newsprint portrait, rear pastedown bearing a pictorial Thurston newspaper advertisement with the typed annotation “proof for Troy Newspapers.” Illustrated. 8vo. Top edge gilded. A fine copy, the front cover a trifle bumped.
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-12-03
