John Calvert : Magic and Adventures Around the World.
Baton Rouge: Claitor's Publishing, 1987. Numerous black and white photographs. First edition, first printing. Beige boards, in John O'Meara dust jacket ($19.95). Fine in fine, lightly rubbed dust jacket, in mylar cover. Item #146509
THE MAGIC MAN, SIGNED
John Calvert was "the suave magician, debonair film actor, rugged adventurer, yachtsman, big-game hunter, and pilot," a man whose life was too dramatic for even fiction. So, when William V. Rauscher (an Episcopal priest and magician in his own right) tells of the Australian Navy rescuing shipwrecked Calvert off his yacht to find him accompanied by a young singer and a chimpanzee, know he is just scratching the surface. Rauscher's biography chronicles a man who spent over eighty years in magic, forever upping the theatrical ante of the art and bringing it to the big screen.
Inscribed by John Calvert on full title. Unknown limitation, of which this is #276.
Price: $150.00