Memoirs of a Sword Swallower

Daniel P. Mannix, V. Vale

San Francisco

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V/SEARCH

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1996

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First Thus.

28cm x 21cm. 128 pages, black and white photographs. Pictorial wrappers.

First V/SEARCH Printing and the first edition to include photographs of the people described in the original edition. “..true story of life with a traveling carnival, peopled by amazing characters (the Human Ostrich, the Human Salamander, Jolly Daisy) who commit outrageous feats of wizardry. This is one of the only authentic narratives revealing the “tricks” (or more often the lack thereof) and skills involved in a sideshow, and is invaluable to those aspiring to this profession.” (publisher’s blurb).

. New Book.