The Life and Times of Augustus Rapp - Hardcover

Augustus Rapp

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0916638448 ISBN 13: 9780916638443

Publisher: D. Meyer Magic Books, 1991

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

"A wealth of anecdotes and a selection of old portraits and playbills help to make this a uniquely interesting book." --Vincent Starrett, Chicago Tribune, November 2, 1959

"Rapp contributed a great deal to his world... if only for the brief time between curtain up and curtain down." --Robert Lund, American Museum of Magic newsletter, 1987

About this edition

• Publisher: D. Meyer Magic Books
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0916638448
• ISBN 13: 9780916638443
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 201