Houdini

by Milbourne Christopher and Christopher Milbourne

Book Overview

Recreates in words and pictures the life and amazing feats of the great escape artist and illusionist, detailing his work as filmmaker, aviator, and investigator of the supernatural. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517189038
• ISBN13: 9780517189030
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Gramercy Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.9" x 11.2"

Customer Reviews

Great Photos, Fair Reprint

This book is a reprint of Christopher's "Houdini A Pictorial Life" published in 1976. Compared to the original, it's a rather poor reprint. The quality of the B & W photos are much degraded and one of the original book's two color pages is now B & W (the other is missing entirely). Still, the photos in this book - many showing Houdini in action - are terrific and very rare. The original book can be hard to find and tends to sell for $30 and up. But if you're going to hunt (and pay) then hunt down instead "Houdini His Legend and His Magic" by Doug Henning. This is the best of the four "coffee table" size Houdini books done in the late '70s. If you're looking for a definitive Houdini biography (more content than photos) I recommend "Houdini! The Career of Ehrich Weiss" by Ken Silverman.

good content...b/w illus.

excellent info on Houdini...be aware that all illus. are black/whit