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Blitz, Antonio. Fifty Years in the Magic Circle. Hartford: Belknap & Bliss, 1871. Orange cloth decoratively stamped in black and gilt, with steel-engraved portrait frontispiece and plates. 8vo. Binding significantly rubbed and front hinge cracked. With a lengthy inscription on a preliminary blank (now loose) from Frederick Eugene Powell to Oscar S. Teale, Houdini’s secretary: “Presented to my good friend Oscar S. Teale Jan 10th 1931 New Haven, Conn. May he live very many years to read this book. Frederick Eugene Powell.” With Powell’s rubber stamp above the inscription, and the bookplates of Teale and Raymond Goulet on the front pastedown. Toole Stott 100. Sales History: Lot 29 of the Christopher Collection Auction (Swann Galleries, October 1, 1981).