Existing comment:
One of the "Early Books"
Hoffmann, Professor.
Tricks with Cards. New York: Routledge, 1890
Inscribed by Houdini: "May 6, 1916. This book is one of the 'early books' in my library. In those days it was my wont to go to public libraries, but this book I bot [sic] and here it is. It was a lot of money for me in those days, but life's pathway is not always best at the early mileage, though the early days were the happiest of my life. H.H."
Houdini notes: "The sig[nature] is the way I used to sing myself. H.H."
On inside front cover, beneath Houdini's bookplates: Erich Weiss Houdini, Prestidigitatauer [sic], Spt. 28, 1893. |