ALFRED THE ALLIGATOR BOY, Born, Raised, and Educated in Savannah, Georgia cover title

by Alfred G. Green

$225 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition

Cincinnati, OH: Billboard Publishing Co. , nd ca. 1940 . First edition ? . 12mo 17 cm . Three-pages, title, verso with a one-page autobiographical sketch, recto of integral leaf with a standing portrait dressed only in shorts and shoes and sox . Green was born with ichthyosis vulgaris and parlayed his scaly, thick skin into a sideshow act as an “alligator boy” while pregnant with Alfred, his mother was supposedly frightened by an alligator

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