Salon de Magie: The Klosterman Collection Part I

[Houdini] Teale, Oscar. Higher Magic. New York: Adams Press Print Co., 1920. Pebbled red cloth decorated in gilt, A.e.g. Illustrated, including plates. 8vo. Minor wear at extremities. Boldly inscribed and signed in ink by Harry Houdini on the flyleaf to his attorney: “To B.M.L. Ernst / with compliments of / Houdini / Merry Xmas 1922” and signed underneath by the author, “Witnessed by / Oscar S. Teale.” Teale served as Houdini’s secretary and researcher late in the magician’s life. Ernst worked as Houdini’s attorney for years, and after the escape artist’s death, wrote a book about Houdini’s “strange friendship” with Arthur Conan Doyle.