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1970000886PHILADELPHIA PENNSYLVANIA PA. Very Good. 1970. On offer is an original huge archive of handwritten and typescript communication and orders sent to a bookseller for books related to the circus clowns performing animals and carnivals. Circa 1970s - 1980s this archive includes many items on circus or clown letterhead business cards from circus operators and performers and postal covers with stamps from all over the USA Canada UK and Australia. While some of the letters are lists of book orders relating to the circus others are correspondence directly from the circus performers themselves many contain illustrated circus advertising as well as autographs from performers and operators. There is a sensational mix of material here.Most of the letters are addressed to Frank Barry whose book selling business was located in Philadelphia. There are 230 individual letters/postal covers with most containing several pages of enclosures with an estimated 500 pages of circus material for the collector to sort through. All of the material is in very good to fine condition with most of the envelopes/covers opened with a letter opener neatly on one end. VG. ; Manuscript; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH DIARY JOURNAL LOG KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS DIARIES JOURNALS LOGS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY antiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier Antike Brief Pergament Dokument Manuskript Papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento manuscrito Papel CIRCUS PERFORMANCE ARTISTS TRAVELING SHOW TROUPE CARNIVAL HIPPODROME CIRQUE BIG TOP Circensian ACROBATS CLOWNS THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH TRAPEZE TIGHTROPE JUGGLERS THREE RING CIRCUS . unknown
193221628New York: Macmillan Company 1932. First edition. Illustrated. 1 vols. 8vo. Original tan illustrated cloth original illustrated dust jacket. Some rubbing and fraying of extremities of cloth short tears along edges of jacket inner hinges separated library stamps and card else a very good copy. First edition. Illustrated. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed on the front free endpaper "For the members of the Boys Club of New York in the fond hope they may enjoy reading this partial record of my happy past. 'Uncle ' Bob Sherwood Last of Barnum's Clowns. New York City 1934". Macmillan Company unknown
187027855France 1870. Board game. Fine. A French childrens' board game complete with the folding board 10 number disks 6 wooden pieces the instruction sheet and box. The box is papered in apricot & gold spotted paper with an image on the cover of clowns ascending a pyramide and one tumbling down. The box measures 11 x 8". All in very good condition. unknown
192024501Grosset & Dunlap New York 1920. HBDJ 1920 Early Edition Yellow Illustrated Hardcover cloth Cover of Children Clowns Camel ETC . Book Condition: Very Good with light Cvr Wear. Dust Jacket Condition: GOOD with Light Sun Soil Wear & tiny Chips Tears Extremities ; Boards Light edgewear DJ Spine ends Small pieces Out Affects Publ Name Bottom 8vo 120 pages ADS end with Honey Bunch First Visit to Zoo . Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, hardcover
1330163796.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0656074574.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
2455616 December 1956; on letterhead of ‘International Comedy Musicans with Concertinas & Piano / Clown / Ralom and Rosa’ 29 Hibbert Road Leyton London E17. From the Macqueen-Pope papers. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p 4to. On light-blue paper with letterhead in dark-blue and red. Signed ‘Ralom’ with ‘RALOM & ROSA’ typed beneath. In good condition lightly aged. Writing to MP at the Evening News London. ‘There has sic been quite a few remarks passed by critics of the “paucity†of Acts in the Variety profession. My Act which comprises good clean comedy and expert musicianship is one of the most successful Acts from “an audience point of view†in the business to-day and obviously what audiences want.’ MP could ‘ascertain the truth’ of this statement by visiting the forthcoming show at Collins’ Musical Hall. He concludes: ‘Owing to the “paucity†of the right recognition we are contemplating leaving the country shortly to try and find recognition on the Continent.’ 16 December 1956; on letterhead of ‘International Comedy Musicans with Concertinas & Piano / Clown / Ralom and Rosa’, 29 Hib unknown
