[Scrapbook of occasional reading]
Contributors: Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1824
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: American wit and humor
Other titles: Scrap book : miscellaneous : A.M. Smith : 1891
Description: Scrapbook compiled of newspaper clippings of occasional reading, chiefly humorous.  Mainly prose, some poems, filler, reprints from various publications primarily from the United States; some from England.  Inside front cover has inscription: Rarest book, no other like.  A.M. Smith.  Price $25.00.  Cheap for $50.00, it has cost me more.  AMS.  Free front-endpaper notes 5 pages with articles of interest to Houdini.
Notes: Bequest: Estate of Harry Houdini, April 1927.

Compiler was A.M. Smith.  Two A.M. Smiths are identified in the 1880 U.S. Census in what is now New York city:  A. Morton Smith, a grain broker, b. ca. 1835; and A.M. Smith, a toy manufacturer, b. ca. 1825.