(Circus) Cooke, CharlesBiblio.com
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1938325170New York: Haper 1938. First Edition. 360pp. 8vo. Cloth. VG in VG pictorial dust jacket. First Edition. 360pp. 8vo. A Harper "Find" novel about the circus inscribed on ffep to the author's parents by the author. Haper unknown
1945WAS44971Single sheet lithographic poster measuring 20 5/8 x 28 inches some creases and soiling at edges 2 inch closed tear at lower right edge. <br /><br />Printed signature of artist Bill Bailey at lower left edge.<br /><br />This poster was acquired by a collector from the Majestic Poster Press of Los Angeles in the early 1970s. At the time the company held inventory of unused posters printed by other presses as well as their own. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows Inc
1962540442no place: Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. Circus 1962. Unbound. Very Good. Advertising poster. Illustrated by Roland Butler. Measuring approximately 21" x 36". Unbacked. Circus details approximately 20½" x 9¼" tipped-on at bottom edge. Old folds with faint creases tiny nicks at the edges modest rubbing with a tiny stain small ink notation and three small tabs adhered at the topedge verso very good.<br /> <br /> The circus is coming to Philadelphia and it is bringing a very questionable lion tamer. Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. Circus unknown
63-1892Paris: Festival D'Automne 1974. 3 Black & White Photographs 9.5" x 7" also one duplicate with small tear oblong. Very Good. Notes on verso in French. From the Alma Law Collection. Paris: Festival D'Automne, 1974. unknown
191330084HARDBACK NODUSTJACKET 1913 1st edition THUS VG/VG AS-IS NO JACKET Some SLIGHT wear on jacket edges. Some edge wear on covers. Owner's name inside. Text pages in good condition there are at least two other color illustrations in this book. PICTORIAL COVER OF GIRL AN D BOY ON DONKEY WITH DOG COVER WITH PICTORIAL B/W & Gold LABEL 337 PGS Sensitive Music Loving Nat Harum-Scarum Tommy Studious Demi Undisciplined Dan Hoydenish Nan & Domestic Little Daisy are but a few of Active Minded true to th elife Childen who romp into & out of Trouble ALL THRU THIS ENDEARING STORY. Sympathy mixed with good Counsel & supervision goesa long way<br /><br /> BLUE RIBBON BOOKS Authorized Edition LITTLE BROWN A BURT BOOK hardcover
#[36902]Paris Cinemato 1968. Large coloured poster by Guy Lécureux. Ca. 158 x 116 cm. The illustrious family Rancys produced a show called ''Féerie à Sumatra and 15 years later they took up this magical name by offering in 1968 a Féerie au Nepal. This production quite similar to the previous one included seventeen paintings one hundred and twenty costumes sets by Simonne L'Hermitte. Forty artists including Sabine Rancy "The Princess Shera" Catherine Allarion "The Goddess Ellora" Catherine Muller "The White Slave" Jeannine Fratellini "The Goddess Poona" Dany Renz "The Prince of Nepal" Fernand Donnet "The Maharajah of Assam" and Joe Bill "The Grand Vizier Zadji" were in this review with the other artists of program 68. - Small tear at top otherwise fine. unknown
1862165540Munich.: Deschler's Book Brotherhood. 1862. Circus Suhr & Huttermann Poster: Circus Suhr & Hüttemann verbunden mit Theater. Heute Samstag den 2. August 1862: grosse ausserordentliche Vorstellung in der höheren Reitkunst noch nie gesehen Gymnastik und Vorführung der ausgezeichnetsten Schulpferde. Zum Zweitenmale. Black and white poster with engraving. One-sheet. Leaf size: 43.5 x 23.5cm. Top edge slightly browned and small piece 8 x 1cm missing from lower left hand corner An extraordinary presentation in the Higher art of horsemanship never before seen gymnastics and demonstrations of excellent equestrian arts. The extensive program included - two Chinese - August and Henry executing their brave and bold display. . Deschler's Book Brotherhood unknown
191253602New York: H.N. Tiemann Co. 4 East 30th St. March 1912. One silver gelatin photo. 7.5 x 8.5 in. w/ embossed photographer’s stamp at lower left corner pencil annotations on verso of photo 1 corner w/ very slight loss still VG image with bright strong contrast. This image depicts the famed Renaissance Revival structure based on the Moorish Giralda Tower in Spain at Fifth & Madison Ave. in March 1912. Designed by Stanford White for McKim Mead & White this historic venue included the largest amphitheater in America equipped with a tank for aquatic shows a rooftop theatre cabaret restaurant and concert hall. The Cleopatra spectacle featured 1500 performers including the African-American minstrel troop organized by James Wolfscale featuring his three sons and the rest of the musicians mounted on camels playing their instruments. The show which ran from March 23 - April 22 1912 is perhaps best remembered for the widely reported suffrage rally held by 75 women circus performers of the world’s first “Circus Suffrage Society†and notably snubbed by the socialite Suffrage Movement leaders including Harriet Stanton Blatch. Led by Josie De Mott a bareback trick rider acrobat Zella Florence and included women animal trainers wire walkers hand balancers dancers acrobats and the renowned female Hercules -- Katie Sandwina. This Madison Square Garden was demolished in 1924 after the New York Life Insurance Co. which held the mortgage built their landmark Cass Gilbert-designed New York Life Building and another Madison Square Garden venue was opened on 8th Ave. between 49th and 50th. See: Guide to the H.N. Tiemann & Co. Photograph Collection 1880-1916 New York Historical Society 2013; Abbot & Seroff Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows pp. 166-169; Circus Activism: Barnum’s Female Stars Demand Right To Vote Name Baby Giraffe ‘Miss Suffrage’ at Madison Square Garden Bowery Bows 2012. H.N. Tiemann Co., [4 East 30th St.], unknown
187536453n.p. 1875. Carte de Visite format 2-1/2" x 4" albumen print on card mount: Photographic portrait of John McGuire a dwarf dressed in the usual fancy suit and top hat popular with dwarf performers at the time. No printed caption or imprint appears. A pencil notation beneath the photo "Coll. Mcguire." Minor dust. Very Good. <br /> <br /> Col. John McGuire a dwarf perfomer has been the subject of a only handful of carte-de-visites from what our research showed. There is one example very similar to ours held in the Ronald G. Becker Collection of Charles Eisenmann Photographs at Syracuse University and dated about 1875. unknown
1988044579Big Apple Circus 1988. poster. Good. Big Apple Circus Poster 1988 35x 23". Good condition with pin holes in all four corners light soiling and creases along top edge. Shipped rolled. White reverse is blank with light soiling. Printed on white poster paper with semi-gloss ink. Not an original work of art but a poster printed in 1988. Also says: "The Children's Museum Presents Direct from Lincoln Center In The Trump Tent! The Children's Museum Boston The Not-For-Profit Arts Organization that Puts a Little Circus into a lot of Lives May 20-June 12 Pier 3 Northern Ave Tickets available. Big Apple Circus unknown
57340Chicago: Donnelley & Sons 1900. First edition. Brown pictorial cloth designed and lettered in red & white. 242pp. Many full-page illustrations included in the pagination including portraits of all five brothers. Some rubbing and wear to cloth wear to spine ends and edges generally a very good copy otherwise. Very uncommon. <br/><br/> Chicago: Donnelley & Sons, 1900. First edition. hardcover
192929112HBDJ 1929 1ST EDITION GO0D/VG Includes some old magazine photos of the author Green cloth illustrated endpapers color illustrated dustjacket. Light edgewear good hinges sound text block other than the loosening of a few pages toward the front of the book still attached lightly age-toned but clean pages no other names or markings. The mylar protected DJ is a little age-toned but is in very good condition with some very minor closed edge tears effectively no paper loss. Includes some old magazine photos of the author. He worked in the Golden Age of circus from the last 19th century through the early 20th century and was eventually billed as "The Last of Barnum's Clowns."<br /><br /><br /><br /> SHERWOOD’S NY hardcover
193120512New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1931. Frontispiece and numerous illustrations from photographs. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Binding soiled some light soiling of a few pages else a very good copy. Frontispiece and numerous illustrations from photographs. 8vo. Inscribed on the free endpaper "Four Circus Guys are better any day than Four Hawaiians-So step Closah-h-h Friends! This book is inscribed by Courtney Ryley Cooper world's imfamous clown and worse writer to Eddie Nemo world's infamouser laugh eradicator thence to Leonard Traube late very late of the Great European Circursions and finally to the only good guy in andon the lot=Joe Cook. Rain and Shine Boys! Two count 'em Two performances daily so Hold yo' Hosses the Elephants are Coming-g-g! " Captain Dutch Ricardo Alfredo Codona the Wallenda family Lillian Leitzel among other circus names are quoted described and in some case biographical information supplied. Inscribed. <br/><br/> Farrar & Rinehart hardcover
193162105New York: Brewer Warren & Putnam Inc. 1931. 8vo. 183 1 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates. Dark blue publisher’s cloth lettering in black photo-illustrated endpapers minor scuffing edgewear w/ d.j. cover art photo of Betty Boyd Bell w/ circus elephant chipping & tear to head of spine corner still VG-/G- copy. First edition of this surprisingly scarce circus memoir ghost-written for 11-year-old Betty Boyd Bell 1920-1978 by Janet Mabie who at the time was a staff writer for Putnam’s and also preparing Amelia Earhart’s “Last Flight†from her in-flight notes. Bell’s father Floyd Bell was the publicity director for Ringling Bros. Circus and the young girl prepared scrapbooks took photos wrote down her short notes and even met President Calvin Coolidge during her Circus adventures. Betty herself would later dabble in radio spots after attending Choate and LaSalle Junior College working in public relations where she met and married Craig Barry in 1944 marketing analyst for General Electric. Scarce in original dustjacket. Brewer, Warren & Putnam, Inc., hardcover
19311387Milano: Rizzoli & Co. 1931. Good. 19-1/2" x 14. 8 pp. Cream paper printed in black burnt orange and blue with color lithographed illustrations throughout. Center fold line and lighter vertical crease; light foxing to outer pages; several nicks and occasional minor loss to margins; long tear to head of last leaf progressively shorter in successive leaves; few other tears minimally affecting text on last page; some splitting to folds. Large promotional newspaper/program for this travelling German circus in Italy only from 1931-32. The circus featured "la sua grandiosa pantomima acqua" a grand water pantomime in which the ring was flooded with 500000 litres of water with fountains "whose splashes touch the top of the tent jets of water illuminated by reflectors with the force of 2000000 candles luminous waterfalls a thousand water games complete with the entire artistic staff with actors singers and international dance beauties" our translation."In the late 1920s Jakob Busch made his mark as one of the first circus directors to adapt water spectaculars popularized by Paula Busch in her Berlin circus to an itinerant big top and to bring to his traveling show under the artistic direction of Alfred Delbosq the hitherto purely urban concept of the revuereplete with chorus line singers and theatrical tableaux. Using equipment especially designed for his traveling circus Jakob Busch dedicated the full second half of his shows to carefully dramatized water pantomimes for which the ring was completely flooded. Their themes ranged from oriental tales to Venetian feasts and even to an elaborate six-part spy story From the Equator to the Pole which included all sorts of exotic animals and a polar tableau with penguins sea lions and a couple of ice skaters. . Circus Busch performed regularly in neighboring Czechoslovakia and Austria and even became popular in Italy which it visited in 1931 and 1932 due to the close ties between the Fascist and Nazi regimes" circopedia.org/Jakob_Busch.This program is from the circus's premier in Carrara on Friday January 29th.Apparently unrecorded. We find no holdings in OCLC Copac or KVK. [Rizzoli & Co.] unknown
193149819Cleveland OH: The Harter Publishing Co. Educational Publishers 1931. 4to. 4 folding poster leaves 36 x 12 in. printed in black with brown colour printed the posters. Colour-illustrated softcovers cover art by Sampson back cover art contains colour suggestions for the four posters minor edgewear creasing four posters neatly stapled to back cover still VG copy. First edition of this fantastic activity book intended to provide children with a box of crayons or watercolours large simple drawings many happy hours of colouring and enjoyment. These were intended to be hung as a twelve-foot frieze on the wall of the play room bedroom or classroom. Sampson was also known for her 1933 Aesop silhouette book as well as her charming Mother Goose Posters in 1925. No copies located in Worldcat. The Harter Publishing Co., Educational Publishers, paperback
196735454NY: Electric Circus of New York 1967. 9.5 by 6 inches white stock printed in green. Some toning overall else very good. In December 1967 the Electric Circus staged a sold out show at Carnegie Hall entitled "Electric Christmas" featuring Circus Maximus Morton Subotnick a light show by Anthony Martin and the early electronic group New York Pro Musica and following the success of this event an Electric Easter was staged in 1968 featuring the Chambers Brothers. <br/><br/> Electric Circus of New York unknown
1930127955N.p. 1930s. Very Good. Vintage black-and-white snapshot photographs of women in costume dressed as clowns and as gangsters and gun molls. Produced by roving photographers who traveled with the caravan of performers and animals and some by local scene photographers. These images show intimate moments between friends: 2 show young women one name Violet who poses in clown costumes with Ethel and with Mildred in what appears to be an alley; the remaining 4 have printed ornate borders and show stoic flapper-dressed young women 2 show massive advertising billboards in the background and 1 of those features another woman in drag as a male gangster. Both sets feature an identifiable or recognizable central figure Violet and the stoic flapper with the pigtail bang and together the two similar bring to the life the era in format and its contemporary counterculture in subject. All approx 2.5 x 3.5 inches single-weight black-and-white with small borders blank versos except for the 4 with boards 300 stamped on versos: this could indicate the photos are from a set the "300" set given to patrons as souvenirs at the shows. Very Good overall each with partial evidence of removal from a scrapbook or album light rubbing and toning creases 2 with ink notations in the borders all with brief pencil notations also on the versos. N.p. hardcover
192363201New York: George H. Doran 1923. 8vo. xiv 337 1 pp. Frontisp. numerous illustrations plates photos. Gray publisher’s cloth red lettering minor dustsoiling & slight foxing to fore-edges of textblock w/ d.j. cover art by James Montgomery Flagg minor dustsoiling rubbing faint stain soiling to spine still VG-/G- copy. First edition of this thrilling and inspirational story of the famed pioneering journalist publicist for P.T. Barnum Circus the Olympic Music Hall agent for the Orpheum vaudeville circuit and more. She represented Al Jolson Will Rogers Lillian Russell and many others. In 1919 she lost her life savings to a bad investment and was confined to a hospital for 5 years in cast and braces because of a paralyzing back injury. This inspirational story was written with one hand holding a pencil and moving over a pad of paper while flat on her back. Illustrations were contributed to this memoir by Rube Goldberg James Montgomery Flagg Tony Sarg Thornton Fisher Ed Hughes and others. Scarce in dustjacket. George H. Doran, hardcover
1960532131no place: Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. Circus 1960. Unbound. Very Good. Advertising poster. Measuring approximately 28" x 29¼". Unbacked. Circus details approximately 27½" x 9½" tipped-on at bottom edge. Old folds with a small creased tear down the center tiny nicks at the edges with a short tear modest rubbing with creases at the bottom three small tabs adhered at the topedge on verso very good.<br /> <br /> The circus is coming to Philadelphia and it is bringing a very happy clown. Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. Circus unknown
1960540440no place: Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. Circus 1960. Unbound. Very Good. Advertising poster. Illustrated by Roland Butler. Measuring approximately 28" x 21". Unbacked. Old folds with a creased tear chips and tears at the edges loss at the top right corner not affecting text dampstain along the bottom edge two small tabs adhered at the topedge on verso very good.<br /> <br /> The circus is coming and it is bringing a rhinoceros. Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. Circus unknown
1958532126no place: Cristiani Bros. Circus 1958. Unbound. Very Good. Advertising poster. Illustrated by F.D. Freeland. Measuring approximately 28" x 30½". Unbacked. Circus details approximately 27" x 9¾" tipped-on at bottom edge. Old folds tiny tears at the edges with a couple horizontal tears across the center inked description and three small tabs adhered at the topedge on verso very good.<br /> <br /> The circus is coming to Philadelphia and it is bringing a man who can leap over a herd of elephants. Cristiani Bros. Circus unknown
1958532122no place: Cristiani Bros. Circus 1958. Unbound. Very Good. Advertising poster. Measuring approximately 20½" x 36¾". Unbacked. Circus details approximately 20¼" x 9¼" tipped-on at bottom edge. Old folds with creases tears and small chips mostly along the bottom half verso toned and soiled with small paper residue on top corner very good.<br /> <br /> The circus is coming to Philadelphia and it is bringing a dog and pony show. Cristiani Bros. Circus unknown
1950457652no place: King Bros. 3-Ring Circus 1950. Unbound. Very Good. Advertising poster. Measuring approximately 28" x 29". Unbacked. Circus details approximately 28" x 9¼" tipped-on at bottom edge. Old folds three small tabs adhered at the topedge verso wear creasing and a some faint dampstaining on the verso that shows through a bit. Very good.<br /> <br /> The circus is coming to Phoenixville Pennsylvania bringing an angry lion and a hungry hippo. King Bros. 3-Ring Circus unknown
1950532130no place: King Bros. Circus 1950. Unbound. Very Good. Advertising poster. Measuring approximately 28" x 21". Unbacked. Lacking circus details at bottom edge. Old folds moderate edgewear with three long tears paper residue from previously attached circus details tiny dampstains and two small tabs adhered at the topedge on verso about very good.<br /> <br /> The circus is coming and it is bringing a menagerie of exotic animals. King Bros. Circus unknown
