The Life and Times of Augustus Rapp, Deluxe Edition

From the deluxe edition limited to fifty copies. Black cloth with gilt stamping on front cover and spine in matching black cloth slipcase. Portrait frontispiece, illustrated, 183 pages.

Gus Rapp was a magician, mentalist, juggler, ventriloquist, puppeteer and actor -- a roving entertainer in search of an audience. He spent nearly 60 years as a wandering showman in the villages of the Midwest and rural South during the 1890s and early decades of the 20th century. At the grand old age of 89 Rapp began his amusing and curiously readable autobiography about life on the road by writing, "I was born dead."

Illustrated with photographs and playbills. New.

*** Note: we have purchased the remaining inventory of this title from the publisher, and once the few copies in our inventory have been sold, the book will be out of print.