OOP The Silence of Chung Ling Soo – Todd Karr / Miracle Factory ESTATE

Very good used condition! First edition 2001

• Edited by Todd Karr
  488 pages
  Hardbound in cloth with foil stamping
  Full-color dust jacket
  Over 125 illustrations
  8-page color section
  40 Soo posters
  50 close-up and stage effects
  Soo’s magazine articles
  Reprint of Robinson’s Spirit Slate-Writing and Kindred Phenomena
  Dozens of fascinating letters between Robinson and Houdini
  Cover by Katlyn Breene
  Introductory essay by Jim Steinmeyer

I’m delighted that, through this collection, we have a chance to appreciate Robinson’s inventive abilities and insights into magic, and that his portrait will, line by line, be that much clearer to us all. — Jim Steinmeyer

This fascinating collection of writings examines legendary performer Chung Ling Soo, alter ego of William E. Robinson of New York, and includes more than fifty of Soo’s extraordinary close-up and stage effects, forty gorgeous color Soo posters, over fifty letters from Robinson to Houdini, Robinson’s insightful articles and books, including a full reprint of his scarce 1898 book Spirit Slate Writing and Kindred Phenomena, plus programs, reviews, biographical profiles, rare photos, and memorabilia.