The Story of Harry Houdini by James C. Young is a 20-page booklet that consists of three newspaper articles originally published in The New York Times during Houdini’s lifetime.
"A Brief Biography of Harry Houdini" is from The New York Times, January 13, 1918. "Houdini, Mediums and Seances" is from May 7, 1922. The book concludes with "Thrown Overboard Manacled in a Box", a July 8, 1912 account of his first overboard box escape in New York Harbor. This book is not illustrated.
There isn't anything here that can't be found elsewhere or online for free -- such as at Tom Interval's amazing Houdini in the New York Times website -- but at $5.99, it's not a bad resource to have on the shelf for quick research.
Purchase The Story of Harry Houdini on Amazon.
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- Life
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- Les merveilleux exploits de Houdini à Paris (1909)
- The Master Mystery (1918)
- The Grim Game (1919)
- Terror Island (1920)
- The Man From Beyond (1922)
- Haldane of the Secret Service (1923)
- Velvet Fingers (1925-26)
- Medium Well Done (1937)
- Religious Racketeers (1938)
- Houdini Picture Corp.
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- Deconstructing Houdini '53
- Spiritualism
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- Beatrice Houdini
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- Jim Collins
- Franz Kukol
- Martin Beck
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Margery
- J. Gordon Whitehead
- Edward Saint
- Jacob Hyman
- Leopold Weiss
- Carrie Gladys Weiss
- Bernard M.L. Ernst
- Charmian London
- Jess Willard
- H.P. Lovecraft
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- Full Bibliography
- By Houdini
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- Wild About Harry Bookshelf
- Houdini His Life Story (1928)
- Houdini The Man Who Walked Through Walls (1959)
- Houdini The Untold Story (1969)
- The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini (1993)
- Houdini!!! The Career of Ehrich Weiss (1996)
- The Secret Life of Houdini (2006)
- The Metamorphosis: The Apprenticeship of Harry Houdini (2012)
- The Witch of Lime Street (2015)
- The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini (2019)
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
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Thanks, John! It's an odd but interesting trend that people are pulling material from old articles and from Wikipedia and creating e-books, or even DIY print books, then plopping their names on them as if their publications are original works.
ReplyDeleteI know. It's tacky. I wasn't going to give this a shoutout for that reason. But then I thought it's a good idea to clarify what this is for those who come across it on Amazon.
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