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Houdini, Harry. Sailors Challenge Houdini. Liverpool: Will Jones, 1909. Letterpress poster describes the challenge escape Houdini has accepted from a group of sailors, who will bind him with a “stick, a seven-foot plank, and some good strong rope.” Houdini accepts the challenge “on the condition there are no slip nooses or hangman’s knot used around his neck.” 20 x 29 ”. Edges chipped; A-.


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