Death & The Magician The Mystery of Houdini by Raymond FitzSimons

Description

This is a pre-owned book from the library of William V. Rauscher. His info is attached to the inside of the rear cover. The dust jacket has a few small tears along the top edges and some light foxing on the internal surfaces at the top edges. The interior of the book is in very good condition. The pages are all clean and unmarked; no foxing.

“Death and the Magician – The Mystery of Houdini” by Raymund Fitzsimons – 1st edition hardcover with dust jacket. Published in 1981 by Atheneum. Has 194 pages with 8 pages of great black & white photos. This insightful portrait of one of the world’s greatest, and most mystifying magicians traces Houdini’s rise to worldwide fame and explores his fascination with the occult and his obsession with death. There was, throughout Houdini’s career, a fascination with death as one inescapable bond. No man risked death so daringly; no man was so pursued by its shadow. He exposed mediums who claimed to communicate with the dead yet prayed that one would be genuine. “Death and the Magician” reveals the secrets of some of Houdini’s most puzzling tricks, and includes an extensive, annotated bibliography that reviews all the important literature on the man and his magic. No collection of books on magicians and escape artists is complete without this one.