Oct 31, 2002 - Sale 1949

Sale 1949 - Lot 49

Unsold
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
PEACE CELL ESCAPE (HOUDINI, HARRY.) The London Hippodrome. "A Modern Jack Sheppard." Printed advertising piece for a Houdini performance and London's Hippodrome, detailing former escapes, including the famous Peace cell escape. 4 pages, bifolium in 4to format. London, 1904
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Unusual advertising piece, giving a detailed account of Houdini's Peace cell escape, plus other escapes performed in Great Britain. Houdini is characterized as follows, "No prison yet built has ever been able to hold him. His particular pleasure is to force locks and free himself from handcuffs. In this he has never failed . . . Handcuffs cannot hold him."<