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American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History's Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performances
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Profiles some two hundred lesser-known figures from the heyday of the American sideshow, tracing the lives of such individuals as legless acrobat Eli Bowen, four-legged woman Myrtle Corbin, and 'human torso' Prince Randian, in an account of the rise and fall of sideshows and how advances in modern medicine have enabled voluntary body changes. Reprint.
By Marc Hartzman
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9781585425303 | Reprint edition (J P Tarcher, September 21, 2006), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Profiles some two hundred lesser-known figures from the heyday of the American sideshow, tracing the lives of such individuals as legless acrobat Eli Bowen, four-legged woman Myrtle Corbin, and 'human torso' Prince Randian, in an account of the rise and fall of sideshows and how advances in modern medicine have enabled voluntary body changes.

American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History's Most Wondrous And Curiously Strange Performers
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Profiles some 200 lesser-known figures from the heyday of the American sideshow, tracing the lives of such individuals as legless acrobat Eli Bowen, four-legged woman Myrtle Corbin, and 'human torso' Prince Randian, in an account of the rise and fall of sideshows and how advances in modern medicine have enabled voluntary body changes. 20,000 first printing.
By Marc Hartzman
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9781585424412 | J P Tarcher, November 17, 2005, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Profiles some 200 lesser-known figures from the heyday of the American sideshow, tracing the lives of such individuals as legless acrobat Eli Bowen, four-legged woman Myrtle Corbin, and 'human torso' Prince Randian, in an account of the rise and fall of sideshows and how advances in modern medicine have enabled voluntary body changes.

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