If this title is a multivolume set, this is a single volume, Black & white printing on high quality natural shade paper with sewing binding for longer life, professionally processed without changing its contents. Original edition was published in and this unique edition is Reprinted in 2019 with the help of original edition. We have multiple options in color of leather Red, Green, Blue, Black and with Black labels. An Original Leather is being used for binding this book with Golden Leaf Printing and designing on Spine, front and Back of the book with edge gilding. 342 A Unique Leather Bound book for elite readers/collectors of old rare books. It ought to have been History of Magic.Paperback. The one admission Houdini would allow years later was: 'The only mistake I made was in calling my book Houdin Unmasked. Many think the true roots of the book lie with the French magician's family snubbing the newly famous Houdini during his first tour of Europe. Houdini never expressed any regret for his what is now seen as an over-the-top (one chapter is titled: 'Robert-Houdin's Ignorance of Magic') and somewhat Oedipal attack on his namesake. Kenneth Silverman writes in Houdini!!! The Career of Ehrich Weiss: 'Some magicians damn the book others accept or reject its arguments piecemeal none endorses it whole.' However, the magic community, especially in France, severally criticized Houdini's wholesale 'attack' on Robert-Houdin, and the book still provokes a strong reaction today.

In adverts he even offered a cash prize of $250 if anyone could name 'a book which has taken so much time, energy, travel and money, with such authentic data regarding real magical inventions.' While he knew many would not read the book cover to cover, he still implored them in his inscriptions to at least 'read the introduction.' (This can be found written in many copies of Unmasking, including one in my own collection).

Houdini was immensely proud of his book, which features many images from his own collection, and dedicated it to his father.

Unmasking of robert houdin