Fifty years in the magic circle
Subtitle: being an account of the author's professional life : his wonderful tricks and feats : with laughable incidents and adventures as a magician, necromancer, and ventriloquist
By: by Signor Blitz.
Contributors: Soo, Chung Ling, 1861-1918, inscriber.; Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Belknap & Bliss; W.E. Bliss; Duffield Ashmead; Nettleton & Co.; George M. Smith & Co.; A.L. Bancroft & Co.
Published: 1872
Place of publication: Hartford, Conn; Toledo, Ohio; Philadelphia, Penn; Cincinnati, Ohio; Boston, Mass; San Francisco, Cal
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
Subjects: Blitz, Antonio, -- 1810-1877; Magicians -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Notes: "Published by subscription only."

LC copy has inscriptions:  Bessie Smith; presentation inscription from Bessie Smith to William E. Robins[on]; William E. Robinson, New York City, 1879. Imperfect: water-damaged; 1 plate and p. [v]-vi detached, laid in; p. 167-170 wanting.