Relevant to my interests: rare books in the collection of Harry Houdini. "My favorite item from the selections in Dr. Colleary’s book are the playbills for an amazingly titled 1826 show called 'Odd Sayings and Queer Doings,' which seems ripe for revival as the title of a podcast."
Harry Houdini was a serious book collector. Here are some of his weirdest finds.
Magician and escape artist Harry Houdini was quite the collector, filling warehouses and his Harlem home with books, posters, newspaper clippings, and more. It probably shouldn’t be surprising that…
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