Description
Contents
A Neat Handcuff Trick
Which Coin Was Touched?
Spinning of a Handkerchief
To Tell the Coin Selected
The Mesmerized Walking Stick
The Magnetic Pencil
The Vanishing Card
The Matchless Match
The Obstinate Card
Houdini, Magic Secrets for Entertaining
$14.99
Houdini’s 1919 combination Martinka catalog-book
Facsimile of the first edition
Originally published 1919
Classic back cover photo of Houdini
Nine simple beginners’ effects and stunts
Martinka catalog listings and illustrations
“Magic as an Entertainment” essay
18 pp.
Softbound (saddle-stitched)
6 x 9 in.
Glossy cover
High-quality coated text pages
Harry Houdini owned one of America’s oldest magic shops, the famed Martinka and Co. in New York, and in 1919 he published a small catalog that combined listings for the store’s products as well as simple magic effects.
The 12-page booklet is filled with period illustrations and descriptions for its early twentieth-century offerings like their ornate wooden New Dice Box and Vulcan’s Magic Wand. Throughout the book, you’ll find basic magic effects like “The Mesmerized Walking Stick” and stunts like “The Obstinate Card.”
This vintage pamphlet concludes with a brief essay, “Magic as an Entertainment,” and a classic photo of Houdini in chains on the back cover, reminding clients who owned the shop.
Our facsimile reproduces the 1919 original from the Karr Collection. Like our other reprints, we haven’t re-typeset the text, so you can see the actual original pages.
Note: You can also purchase this book with our other Houdini booklets and save. See: The Houdini Booklet Collection
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