The Amazing Harry Kellar: Great American Magician
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The Amazing Harry Kellar: Great American Magician
Book Details
- Author
- Gail Jarrow
- Publisher
- Calkins Creek Books
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Category
- Performing Arts
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9781590788653
- ISBN-10
- 1590788656
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ISBN: 1590788656
Author: Jarrow, Gail
Condition: New
Presenting the amazing Harry Kellar: the first magician to receive international fame and the model for the Wizard of Oz!In this illustrated biography of the most well-known illusionist at the turn of the twentieth century, Author Gail Jarrow follows Kellar from a magician's assistant traveling and performing across the United States during the Civil War to an international superstar with a show of his own, entertaining emperors, kings, and presidents.Jarrow uses Kellar's own words and images-his amazing four-color promotional posters-to tell his riveting story in this first Kellar biography for young readers. And she reveals the science behind Kellar's illusions and explores nineteenth-century entertainment and transportation as well as the history of magic, spiritualism, and séances.
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