In 2020, Joe Notaro acquired Houdini's own bound volume of the serialized story Houdini's Schooldays from the Houdini family. Now Joe has published those stories complete with the original illustrations and his own research.
Every auction has its surprises, and in today's Potter & Potter auction of Vintage & Modern Magic, the Houdini surprise was this program from his 1926 run at the Princess Theatre in Chicago.
Dalshire International of Carrollton, Texas, is selling via LiveAuctioneers a signed copy of Houdini's Book of Magic and Party Pastimes with an estimate of $16,800 - $18,200.
Here's another gem discovered by our friend Whitt Smith in an old issue of The Sphinx magazine. This occurred on Saturday, April 21, 1923, at the Golden Gate Theater in San Fransisco.