The Greatest: Houdini (1999)

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  • Houdini: The Life and Times of the World's Greatest Magician (Oxford People)

    • UPC: 842988124404
    • ASIN: 0785835563
    • ISBN: 0785835563
    • Brand: Creative Publishing International
    • Manufacturer: Chartwell Books

    Based on contemporary reports and diaries and supported with historic photographs and period posters, Houdini is an intriguing biography of the world’s greatest magician and escape artist. Ninety years after his death, this brings both the man and his magic back to life again for one last performance. In the early 1900s, Houdini’s handcuff show... [Read More]

  • Harry Houdini: Escape Artist (Level 2)

    • ASIN: 0689848153
    • ISBN: 0689848153
    • Brand: Simon Spotlight
    • Manufacturer: Simon Spotlight

    Read all about Harry Houdini, the famous American magician, in this nonfiction Level 2 Ready-to-Read!Find out how a little boy named Ehrich Weiss became Harry Houdini—the greatest magician the world has ever known! A special section in the back of the book includes a time line of Harry Houdini's life.

  • Houdini's Final Incredible Secret: How Houdini Mystified Sherlock Holmes' Creator

    • ASIN: 1537122738
    • ISBN: 1537122738
    • Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

    After twenty years of painstaking research, Houdini’s last great riddle has finally been solved. This unique book investigates the baffling intimate performance Houdini created for his friend Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The exploit made the creator of Sherlock Holmes insist that Harry had employed occult or supernatural powers to accomplish it. As be... [Read More]

  • Houdini!!!: The Career of Ehrich Weiss : American Self-Liberator, Europe's Eclipsing Sensation, World's Handcuff King & Prison Breaker

    • ASIN: 0060169788
    • ISBN: 0060169788
    • Brand: Harpercollins
    • Manufacturer: Harpercollins

  • Houdini: Art and Magic

    • ASIN: 0300146841
    • ISBN: 0300146841
    • Manufacturer: Yale University Press

    Born Ehrich Weiss in Budapest, Hungary, Harry Houdini (1874–1926) was a rabbi’s son who became one of the 20th century’s most famous performers. His gripping theatrical presentations and heart-stopping outdoor spectacles attracted unprecedented crowds, and his talent for self-promotion and provocation captured headlines on both sides of the A... [Read More]

  • Houdini

    • UPC: 844503000026
    • ASIN: B0016LFUVG
    • Brand: LEGEND FILMS
    • Manufacturer: Legend Films

  • Harry Houdini Mysteries: The Floating Lady Murder

    • ASIN: 085768292X
    • ISBN: 085768292X
    • Manufacturer: Titan Books

    In turn-of-the-century New York City, struggling young performer Harry Houdini is working for the renowned magician Kellar. One night his master’s astonishing illusion the Floating Lady goes horribly wrong, with Kellar’s levitating assistant apparently plunging to her death. Houdini, along with his wife Bess and brother Dash, must solve the mys... [Read More]

  • The Great Houdini: His British Tours

    • ASIN: 1473867940
    • ISBN: 1473867940
    • Brand: PEN SWORD BOOKS
    • Manufacturer: Pen and Sword History

    Between 1900 and 1920 Harry Houdini toured Great Britain, extensively visiting many of its major towns and cities. Whilst there, he escaped from jails, jumped from bridges into rivers whilst bound up in chains, performed amazing escapades, tricks and illusions, and delighted everyone who came to see him.Everywhere he performed, he issued challenges... [Read More]

  • The Secret of Golf: The Story of Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus

    • ASIN: 1476766444
    • ISBN: 9781476766447
    • Brand: Simon & Schuster
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

    From “one of the best sportswriters in America” (The Washington Times)—the New York Times bestselling story of the friendship and rivalry between golf legends Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus, whose sparring matches defined the sport for more than a decade.The first time they met, at an exhibition match in 1967, Tom Watson was a seventeen-year-ol... [Read More]

  • Mary Queen of Scots (2018)

    • ASIN: B07L38J6MW

  • Houdini, His Life and Art

    • ASIN: 0448125528
    • ISBN: 0448125528
    • Manufacturer: Putnam Pub Group (Paper)

    Making us of hundreds of photographs, posters, playbills, and memorabilia from many collections, and applying their own spirited research, co-authors Bert Randolph Sugar and The Amazing Randi--a writer and a celebrated magician and escape artist--unravel Houdini's incredible life, depict his times, discuss his magic and escapes from "behind the cur... [Read More]

  • The Last Pass: Cousy, Russell, the Celtics, and What Matters in the End

    • ASIN: B079WNH187
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    The New York Times BestsellerOut of the greatest dynasty in American professional sports history, an intimate story of race, mortality, and regretAbout to turn ninety, Bob Cousy, the Hall of Fame Boston Celtics captain who led the team to its first six championships on an unparalleled run, has much to look back on in contentment. But he has one las... [Read More]

  • The Great Houdini: Daring Escape Artist

    • ASIN: 0816717702
    • ISBN: 0816717702
    • Brand: Brand: Troll Communications
    • Manufacturer: Troll Communications

    Follows the life and exploits of the renowned magician and escape artist

  • Houdini [Blu-ray]

    • UPC: 887090129510
    • ASIN: B01LAVWXU2
    • Manufacturer: Olive Films

    "Hollywood s silver screen couple, Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, teamed for this 1953 Technicolor entertainment about the life of famed illusionist Harry Houdini.Directed by George Marshall (Destry Rides Again), Houdini traces the fascinating life of the world s foremost illusionist and escapologist (portrayed by Tony Curtis, Some Like it Hot), from... [Read More]

  • Do Spirits Return? Houdini Says NO - Proves It Show - Vintage Theater Advertisement (17" x 23" Gallery Reprint, Wall Decor Mural Poster) Archival Ink in Professional Paper, Reprint Museum Quality

    • UPC: 884385961800
    • ASIN: B07HLWDXBN
    • Brand: Harry Houdini
    • Size: 23 Inch
    • Manufacturer: DROB Collectibles

    Do Spirits Return? Houdini Says NO - Proves It Show - Vintage Theater Advertisement (17" x 23" Gallery reprint, Wall Decor Mural Poster) Archival Ink in Professional Paper, Reprint museum quality

  • Houdini's Magic Coloring Book

    • UPC: 822667250259
    • ASIN: B016DX56KG
    • Brand: Houdini Magic
    • Manufacturer: Houdini Magic

    This is a very special coloring book. It is a magic trick, not for actual coloring. Flip through the pages of the coloring book showing all the pages to be blank. Ask the spectators to think of all Houdini's great feats of magic and escape. Flip through the pages again and show drawings of Houdini performing these feats. Now, ask the spectators to ... [Read More]

  • Through a Glass, Darkly: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Quest to Solve the Greatest Mystery of All

    • ASIN: 125007679X
    • ISBN: 125007679X
    • Brand: ST MARTINS
    • Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press

    2018 ASJA Award-Winner in the Biography/History CategoryIs it possible to make direct contact with the dead? Do the departed seek to make contact with us? The conviction that both things are true was the cornerstone of spiritualism, a kind of do-it-yourself religion that swept the Western world from the 1850s to the 1930s. Prominent artists and poe... [Read More]

  • Mysterious Stranger

    • ASIN: B009MMF98A
    • Manufacturer: Vigliano Books

  • The Bowery: The Strange History of New York's Oldest Street

    • ASIN: B06XCSWDKR
    • Manufacturer: Skyhorse

    From peglegged Peter Stuyvesant to CBGB’s, the story of the Bowery reflects the history of the city that grew up around it. It was the street your mother warned you about—even if you lived in San Francisco. Long associated with skid row, saloons, freak shows, violence, and vice, the Bowery often showed the worst New York City had to offer. Yet ... [Read More]

  • Vintage Reprints Poster Do Spirits Return? Houdini says no - and Proves it 3 Shows in one : Magic, Illusions, Escapes, Fraud Mediums

    • ASIN: B004JVMSOC
    • Brand: Vintage Reprints
    • Manufacturer: Vintage Reprints

    Originally used to attract the public to performances and performers, the posters available through this online assemblage of performing arts posters illustrate the wide range of popular, live entertainment in America from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century. Poster Do spirits return? Houdini says no - and proves it 3 shows in one : ... [Read More]

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