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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. French Language; Sorcery; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 440 pages; Confidences and Revelations. How to become a sorcerer. French language text. Mounted albumen portrait of the magician [Houdini], as frontispiece, Contemp. 1/2 purple brown morocco leather & cloth, spine ends rubbed, edges with shallow fraying. Orig. Photo. Frontis. Portrait, wood engraved vignettes in text fo magic. Minor spotting to title page & fore-edge. Contents generally clean and VG. In the back lists 16 experiemnts he conducted while performing with results- enchanted roses etc. "Born in America in 1874, Erich Weiss became one of the most famous magicians who ever lived. He took the stage name, Harry Houdini, in honour of Robert Houdini, a French conjurer and magician who died in 1871." Portrait of Robert Houdin.