**published 1976 Pocket Books **clean & super tight binding, some age discoloration inside cover, some wear to outside cover corners (see picture) *** The REAL Houdini Who was this astonishing man who could make elephants vanish into thin air or escape from a chained, padlocked strongbox at the bottom of the Mississippi in a matter of sec-onds? For years the entire country was alive with rumors about him—his personal life, his strange powers, his latest feats-stories that seemed too fantastic to be true. But, amazingly, many of them were true. World-famous magician Milbourne Christopher has sorted fact from fable, and in this book he tells the colorful, authentic story of the man behind the marvels-the incomparable Houdini.