John Hodgson was interviewed on NPR’s WAMU radio station on his new book, Richard Potter: America’s First Black Celebrity. The interview is available for free from WAMU and includes excerpts from the Potter book.
Mr. Hodgson will present on his book in Keene (4/23), Concord(5/5), and Hopinton, NH (6/24). More details..
Potter & Potter’s Spring Magic Auction, April 28th, 2018, features two recently rediscovered Houdini scrapbooks. The auction also includes Houdiniana in a range of categories, plus a wide offering of magic books, posters, broadsides, ephemera, and vintage magic apparatus. Now you can bid live, online (with a 20% buyer’s premium), at potterauctions.com.
Houdini’s personal copy of his The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin is being reproduced by David Haversat’s 1878 Press Co., for a limited time. First published 110 years ago, the new edition includes unseen additions and changes made by Houdini himself. This book has been published by David Haversat’s 1878 Press Co. Deluxe copy – limited production. $49.95 from 1878press.com.
The meeting at the Magic Barn on March 24 was a great success. Thanks to Vincent Golden, curator of newspapers at the American Antiquarian Society, for his lecture on the less obvious magic items among their holdings. The attending members are pictured below at The Magic Barn in Ashland, MA.