The Harry Houdini Collection from the Library of Congress is available (at least 30 or 40 full texts of published materials) through Google Books. Somebody ought to tell Boing Boing.
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[...] from Boing Boing! 30 01 2010 My original post on the books from the Houdini collection is here. It’s not exactly world-class blogging, but the picture is pretty [...]
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