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HOUDINI, Harry (Erik Weisz, 1874 – 1926). The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin. New York: The Publisher’s Printing Co., 1908. FIRST EDITION. Brown cloth decorated and lettered in white and black, with portrait frontispiece of Houdini behind tissue. Plates and illustrations reproducing scarce playbills and ephemera from the Houdini collection. Index tipped-in at rear (internal portion loose). 8vo. Cloth soiled at extremities. Penciled ownership signature of Will Rock, who would later succeed the Thurston show, on the flyleaf.