Dust jacket included, RARE Please note this is the more rare "Escapes", not "Escapes and Magic" Author: WALTER B. GIBSON Publisher: Harcourt, Brace Release Date: 1930 SKU: -----WB038523----- Please see photos for condition. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, Stephen In 1926, world-famous magician Harry Houdini died of peritonitis following a ruptured appendix. Before his death, he had planned to write several books on varied subjects, including his own career and magical secrets. Fortunately, he had discussed these ideas and shared his notes with Bernard Ernst, president of the Society of American Magicians. Ernst arranged for Walter B. Gibson? a fellow magician, the creator of the pulp fiction character The Shadow, and Houdini's ghost writer? to prepare Houdini?s Escapes.