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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
1951E8576New York: American Broadcasting Company 1951. First edition. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Quarto sized volume in spiral bound illustrated softcovers. 64pp. Illustrated throughout with vintage photographs and red and black drawings. Promotional book issued by the ABC television network to promote "Super Circus" which aired from 1949 through 1956 on Sunday afternoons. Claude Kirshner was the ringmaster and leggy Miss Mary Hartline his assistant on this program that offered all manner of circus acts. A bright near fine example small corner crease front cover. Rather scarce. <br/><br/> American Broadcasting Company paperback
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
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
194571731N.P.: N.p. ca. 1945. Handmade photograph album bearing 10 original photographs. Eight are of circus wagons built by Jack Haines and two are photographs of Jack Haines; the first portraying him at the entrance to the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Show and the second shows him sitting near the large circus wagon used in the show of 1937. Jack Haines was a clown for the circus but apparently he was also involved in the construction of circus wagons. The remaining eight photographs taken by Haines to display his newest creations are all of circus wagons that Jack built in the early 1940s; Baggage Wagon Band Wagon and Stringer Wagon. All the photographs are 6 x 4 inches. Jack also constructed the actual album using two pieces of wood both with metal hinges and with deep linoleum letters and a linoleum sailboat affixed the front cover. The "N" in "SNAPS" is missing. Inscribed by Jack on the inner front cover - "Greetings from Jack Haines to Olivia Kline." N.p. unknown
194347202Dallas TX: Harben-Spotts Co. Inc. 1943. 8vo. 160 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous illustrations. Green cloth black lettering slight scuffing front cover w/ d.j. minor toning to spine slight dustsoiling VG/VG- copy. First edition of this informative biography of the famed Circus Queen who with her husband formed the Bailey Family Troupe served as a spy for Generals John Bell Hood and Jubal Early during the Civil War and later organized the Bailey Circus which played all over Texas. Scarce in dustjacket. Harben-Spotts Co., Inc., 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
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
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
194653518Kewanee IL: Bob Parkinson Box 42 ca. 1946. Tall 8vo. 7.25 x 11.25 in. 24 pp unpaginated. thick cardstock w/ die-cut window slots for photos framed in green paper w/ 47 photos inserted sized from 3.25 x 4.75 in up to 4 x 5 in. a few mounted some w/ stamps on versos a few w/ pencil annotations some tipped-in a few mounted on sheets and inserted typed price list and ordering instructions on front pastedown listing many of the photos. Green linen white lettering stamped on front cover slightly shaken some rubbing edgewear still VG exemplar. Very rare photo sample catalogue assembled probably in the 1940s by Bob Parkinson noted circus collector and former director of the Circus World Museum Library and Research Center. The typed price list details the sets of images for sale such as the four photos from glass plate negatives of the Forepaugh Sells Bros. 1898 parade including images of steam calliope and 4 horse team bandwagon and 20 horse team elephant line-up followed by 2 blocks of close order units and more. In addition there are many images of 1908 and 1910 Ringling Bros. circus parades including views of the “Swan†Bandwagon and entire 24 horse team “Persia†tableau and 24 pony team side view “Egypt†tableau with the 16 camel team the entire elephant line-up riders and more. In addition there are added photos of wagons from the Al G. Barnes Circus Cole Bros. Circus later absorbed by Bailey and then Ringling Bros. as well as 101 Ranch Wild West Shows later circus parades in the 1920s the unloading of circus wagons off the Wisconsin Central Railroad flatbed cars loading docks and more. Parkinson explains that his sets for sale from $ 1.35 to $ 6.00 for all of them are taken directly from original glass plate negatives and that he is not charging much more than the printing costs and only trying to recoup his original considerable expense in purchasing the original negatives. Parkinson 1923-1991 began collecting as early as 1936 when he purchased his first Ringling-Barnum Bros. program and followed every circus show within striking distance of Decatur IL. After starting work as an insurance adjustor in 1946 he continued to chase buy & occasionally sell Circus related material assembling a massive collection of field show newspaper ads and was hired as the director of the Circus World Museum Library and Research Center in Baraboo WI from 1965 until his death. It was renamed the Robert L. Parkinson Library & Research Center the same year. Bob Parkinson, Box 42, unknown
19367028Self Published 1936. First edition. 12mo 164pp. Photographs. Blue cloth boards stamped in gilt. Spine cocked endpapers toned else very good. <br /> <br /> . Self Published unknown
1920157882N.p.: N.p. 1920. Vintage borderless photograph of Trixie the Wonder Dog a performing canine billed as "The Dog with the Mind of a Child." Annotations in manuscript pencil regarding cropping on the verso. <br /> <br /> The photograph shows Trixie posed on a carved wooden seat surrounded by props ostensibly used in her performances including a hoop several balls and a mock menu. <br /> <br /> 7.75 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
193656663Bristol: Arrowsmith 1936. 8vo. 144 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates text illusts. Orange cloth black lettering w/ d.j. cover art photo of author lettering & decoration in black & orange minor darkening to spine slight shelfwear NF/NF copy. First edition of this famed memoir by the circus promoter and founder of the Zoo Park at Maidstone at one time one of the largest privately owned collections of exotic animals in Britain. He supplied animals to theatres pageants films circuses and more and was a major benefactor to Maidstone establishing the Tyrwhitt-Drake Mseum of Carriages. Arrowsmith, hardcover
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
1937106410<p>Oblong 4to booklet format illustrated 111 pp. Cover and spine wear spine essentially gone normal aging; about very good for this type item. The Cole Brothers circus was founded in 1884 and lasted until 2016 when animal rights groups essentially drove them out of business. In 2017 Ringling Bros. faced the same fate. In the 1930s the circus included legendary animal trainer Clyde Beatty who is featured in this booklet and Bobo the Clown. This somewhat scarce piece of circus ephemera includes pictures of performers promotional articles official program and route schedule for 1937.</p> Cole Bros Circus,
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
193054026Petersburg VA: Carl J. Lauther Amusements ca. 1930. 8vo. 4 pp unpaginated. With three photo illustrations self-printed softcovers fold creases minor shelfwear slight dustsoiling still VG exemplar. First edition of this exceedingly scarce promotional pamphlet for the hermaphrodite sideshow featuring “Aileen†who was born in California in 1907 raised as a girl until puberty when only one side developed a female breast and other side developed as man and appears to have dressed primarily as a man although on occasion as a woman for his/her amusement. Later she would often appear with another “hermaphrodite†in the Lauther sideshows who appeared under the name Claude. After World War II the Lauther b. 1888 sideshows would become the staple acts for the Cetlin-Wilson Circus whose winter quarters were in Petersburg VA. Generally the “hermaphrodites†were female impersonators often with deformed genitalia such as prolonged clitoris or misshapen penis creating the illusion of a double-sex and these acts proved notably popular and profitable. No copies located in Worldcat; See: Hartzman American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History’s Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers 2006; Alison Oram Her Husband was a Woman! Women’s Gender-Crossing in Modern Popular Culture 2007. Carl J. Lauther, Amusements, paperback
1905List01132Chihuahua 1905. Albumen photographs most measuring 4 x 6 and smaller. Photographs faded and with wear some stray marks and scuffs to versos good condition overall. Good. We find scant information about Circo Perez a traveling circus in Chihuahua at the turn of the century. The circus was directed by Praxedis Perez and appeared to be largely a family affair. The present collection includes three overtly circus-related cabinet cards: an outdoor scene of the circus tent with a crowd of spectators looking at the camera the verso bearing the note “Circus Perez Chihuahua 1898â€; an advertisement for the troupe Compania Acrobatica de Variedades y Grandes Novedades with a portrait of the director Praxedis Perez; and a cabinet card portrait of a girl in costume. The other photographs appear to be a mix of gifts from grateful patrons and unidentified photographs likely family members. Two photographs relate to a Capitan Manuel Villordo both dated in Chihuahua in 1900 one showing the man on a horseback in military attire the other a gift from a Caciano Perez. Another photograph shows an older woman with two children beside her with the verso identifying her as Prudencia Perez. Overall an evocative if somewhat mysterious group worthy of further research for scholars of Mexican performance. unknown
196023867United Kingdom 1960. ALBUM. Very good condition. An impressive British album of circus performer photographs including 3 of the Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus and images of some famous traveling menageries including Bostock & Wombwell's and Mander's Menagerie as well as acts many with manuscript captions. The album with front cover label reading "Stourpaine Bushes '74 Site and Vehicle Caravan". Stourpaine Bushes was the site in Dorset England where the Great Dorset Steam Fair took place starting in 1969.<br /> <br /> Many performers identified with captions including: <br /> Temple Mead Bristoff "The Cumberlands"; Vaclav Zelenka & Specially Constructed Trampoline; The Brockways Masters of Agility Balance and Comedy on Bicycles; Sally & Kevin McGrath Kevin the runner up in World Professional Skating Championship; Bert Stevenson & Joe Marshall"; "The Three Edigehs ; Jousson Bros Gerard & Philippe; Joe Jackson Jnr"; Bostock and Wombwell's Menagerie famous menagerie founded in 1810 including images of the three menagerie wagons "Rajah" "Pedro" and "Nero" with images showing drivers staff and children; the late Billy Smart & Sons; Jimmy Kaye's Freak Show; Mander's Family on the front of their "Grand Star Menagerie" the family in front of the huge caravan; this Menagerie was founded by William Mathers in the 1860s; he was considered the greatest showman of his day; and Harry Cody's Circus Front.<br /> <br /> Other images include 24 photographs of the trope performing on the rink ice in an elaborate ice shows; Lou Jacobs clown Gunther Gebel Williams Mani Niedermeyer with Polar bear Le Chabre Dorellos Sisters the Breuer Troop Trio Findai Berosini & Chimps "Franz Krefts brown bear the most difficult & dangerous animals to train"; Werner & Denyse Muller; Lucien Meyer's Skating Chimpanzees; and Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey's Elephants rehearsal at Louisville". <br /> <br /> A mix of original b&w snap shots and stock photographs some in color. The album 12 x 10 ½" bound in yellow cloth with cord tie paper title laid down at front cover. 78 photographs laid down ranging in size from 10 x 8 to 3 ½ x 4 1/2 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
193318164<p>October 1933; 1st edition. Very Good HC no DJ. Red cloth over boards gilt stamped titles on front cover; unprinted spine. Bright clean covers and spine; lightly scuffed; tightly bound and square in case; owner names on front end papers; light clean interior with slight general age darkening; pages opposite full page plates more age darkened especially at page edges. 8vo 203 pp; many illustrations.</p> Hollywood, CA: Self-Published (Hollywood Print Shop) hardcover
194866883a collection of 3 programmes advertising Bertram Mills Circus each programme illustrated with black and white photographs and drawings advertisements throughout cover illustrations are in colour Published by Programme Publications paperback
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
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
