Houdini; His Life and Art
by Sugar, Amazing Randi; Sugar, Bert Randolph
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0448125463
- ISBN 13
- 9780448125466
- Seller
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Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap [0-448-12546-3] 1977, 1977 Printing. (hardcover) 192pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. 4to. Dust jacket very good, shows only the lightest of wear. Brown paper boards, gilt title to spine. There is a gift inscription to the front free endpaper; else is clean, crisp, tight, bright. Comprehensive perspective of the Houdini's life, the craft he practised, and the times in which he lived and worked. Richly illustrated with black and white photographs, playbills, posters, and Houdiana from many collections..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Spafford Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 126191
- Title
- Houdini; His Life and Art
- Author
- Sugar, Amazing Randi; Sugar, Bert Randolph
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0448125463
- ISBN 13
- 9780448125466
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1976
- Keywords
- Biography, Biographies, Esoterica, Houdini, Magic
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Spafford Books
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About the Seller
Spafford Books
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Regina, Saskatchewan
About Spafford Books
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...