Edmonds, I.G.: The Magic Man ©1972 I.G. Edmonds, Thomas Nelson, Inc. Hardcover, w/dj, 170 pages ISBN: 0-8407-6146-5

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Comments: A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman Robert-Houdin.

Contents (Chapters, from Book ToC):

13 Foreword
17 1. A Call to Arms
29 2. The Challenge
45 3. A Mouse and a Magic Book
59 4. Watchmaker or Magician?
75 5. First Performance
85 6. The Prefect of Police Turns a Trick
103 7. Emile’s Amazing Second Sight
117 8. The Great Houdin
129 9. Duel in the Desert
141 Afterword
143 The Secrets of Robert-Houdin Revealed