Heavy book which will require extra overseas shipping. A Very Good Solidly Bound Copy with very Light Rubbing to Spine Edges and Corners. Original cream endpapers with surface creasing to bottom corner of front pastedown and owners name and address in Norwich written in pencil. Brick red cloth, gilt with picture on front of figure with scales holding a mask in front of a bust and on the spine a head within an oval frame with the words Robert. The text of Handcuff secrets is complete from chapter one and the pages numbered 1 to 110, followed by a two page publishers list. The first page of text begins with the preface which has no page numbering but the verso is numbered x and pages continue to xvi. Handcuff Secrets is bound in after the index of the First Volume but appears to be missing a title page although a Half Title is printed on the reverse of the portrait frontis. Illustrated with photographs, drawings, reproductions of Theatre Bills etc. When possible, Houdini visited the jail cell to test the lock with his key. pp vii 333 including Index and 2 pages of Addenda and Corrigenda. In Boston City Prison, Houdini managed to escape the handcuffs and his cell as well as scale the prison wall and reach a phone half a mile away, where he phoned the prison Superintendent, all in 20 minutes.

Houdini handcuff escape