The Great Raymond Autographed and Numbered #132/200 Ltd Ed William Rauscher OOP for Sale

The Great Raymond Autographed and Numbered #132/200 Ltd Ed William Rauscher OOP For Sale

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The Great Raymond Autographed and Numbered #132/200 Ltd Ed William Rauscher OOP:
$240.00

The Great Raymond by William V. Rauscher and William L. Broecker

Autographed and Numbered #132/200 LImited Edition

This is the only numbered limited edition version for sale anywhere.

Do not confuse this with the unnumbered edition for sale elsewhere online.

Dust Jacket: Significant tear taped at top -- see photos and video

Published by David M. Baldwin, NJ, 1996

Hardcover

9" x 11-1/4",343 pages

Numbered Limited Edition

Book Condition: Excellent

This fascinating book takes you on a magical journey around the world seven times with The Great Raymond, a Master Magician of remarkable charm and skills. Learn about the hardships, trials, and glory of theatrical magic from the 1900s to the 1940s. Thrill to stories about Raymond's travels, his magic and his lectures on such exotic topics as his Shrunken Heads from Ecuador. This 343-page book with three appendixes includes full-color reproductions of 19 exquisite Raymond posters, a number of which are believed to be one of a kind, and 24 pages of rare full color photographs of Raymond's equipment and costumes. In addition, the reader will find more than 100 black-and-white illustrations depicting Raymond's fabulous stage settings, illusions, personnel, advertising, and scenes from a lifetime of magic. The authors' personal friendship with Litzka Raymond Gibson lends a special insight to this remarkable story which is a major contribution to theatre history.

Contents

viii Acknowledgments viii

x Foreword x

xiii My Profession Is Magic xiii

1 Prologue: Being Great

5 1. Becoming a Magician

19 2. Vaudeville: Hypnotism, Mentalism, and Escapes

39 3. Shows and More Shows

61 Gallery: Stage Display Photographs

75 4. Fooling the King

81 5. The Great Raymond's Lithographs

90 Color Gallery: Raymond Lithographs

101 6. Litzka, The Second Mrs Raymond

145 7. A Life on Stage

133 8. The Business of Touring

159 9. Fanclion and Marco Present

173 10. Seeing Raymond

199 Gallery: Aspects of Raymond

205 11. Dear Father

217 12. Jewels for the Great

221 13. Brother Raymond

235 14. Raymond Remembers

247 15. Rock and Raymond

253 16. The End Draws Near

265 17. Life without Raymond

271 18. Dreams of a Museum

275 19. Walter B Gibson, Wizard of Words

281 Color Gallery: Pieces of Magic

307 20. Possessions of a Lifetime

319 Epilogue

321 Appendices

321 I Raymond and Animals

329 II Raymond on Chung Ling Soo

334 III Raymond as Poet 334

337 Index

Reviews

"The Great Raymond is an important addition to magical biography, imbuing the legend of a great showman with much fascinating factual detail presented via interesting text and beautiful graphics, within the covers of a handsome volume that must surely appeal alike to bibliophiles and collectors."

Edwin A. Dawes

"My comments about this book can not be put into a few words...it would take pages of praise."

Bev Bergeron

"One of this book's greatest attributes is the wealth of high quality photographs of Raymond, taken throughout his life."

Jamy Ian Swiss

"I have never seen a magic history book quite like it. Breathtaking"

David Muller

"The Great Raymond is perhaps the best biography of the decade...a wonderful way to put yourself into those adventuresome years of the early part of the century, when magicians were not only magical performers, but also world travelers and explorers. This is a must for every historian and collector, and the rest of you will enjoy it tremendously as well."

David Goodsell

"You have produced a wonderful book that tells the real story of why the Great Raymond was great! It is one of the most magnificently produced books of magic history that I have ever seen."

Harry Blackstone, Jr.

Maurice Francois Raymond (1877-1948) toured the world as The Great Raymond.He began performing as a young man in the United States, but achieved success first in England. Raymond played in the Vaudeville circuits and in 1910 he made a tour of Australia, spending considerable time in the Far East. He also visited Japan, China, Manila and Hawaii. One act that Raymond was known for was his "Mytempsicosis — fastest trunk escape in the world", performed with his wife, Litzka.He was sponsored into the Society of American Magicians by Harry Houdini in 1921.