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For the first time ever, A Strenuous Career: The Personal Challenge and Advertisement Scrapbook of Harry Houdini puts in your hands a full-color, breath-filled facsimile containing one of the most significant artifacts from the life of the world's greatest escapist. This is one of the largest and most important scrapbooks personally compiled by Harry Houdini! Each page is reproduced directly from Houdini's work album, as he assembled it, preserving the energy, ambition and tireless drive that defined the man.
In these pages, you will witness the challenges that Houdini accepted from all over the world... the advertisements that drew crowds to theaters and public squares. The carefully preserved ephemera that reveals how Houdini forged his legend in real time. This is not history filtered through interpretation, it is history as Houdini lived it!
- Feel the tension as the authorities tie him up with handcuffs and shackles or lock him up in the prison's darkest cells.
- It senses danger as it is sealed in wooden boxes or containers filled with water and submerged, sinking to the bottom of murky rivers.
- He lives the experience of being tied up in a straitjacket and padded suits for the crazy killers who couldn't contain him.
- Experience the pulse of a career built on risk, spectacle and absolute dominance.
Meticulously reproduced from the original album, courtesy of Dr. Bruce J. Averbook's extraordinary historical archive at The Averbook Magic Art Museum and Library, this volume features more than 160 premium, full-color pages in large format, presented in a luxurious 9" x 12" hardcover edition with an elegant sleeve. Every detail has been preserved to fully immerse you in the world of Houdini.
Limited to only 300 copies!
