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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
1932818Rouleau Saskatchewan: Enterprise Show Print 1932. No Binding. Near Fine. 42 x 14 Inches. circa 1932 Original broadside advertisement poster. Light weight poster paper with black and red text and multiple b/w photographs. This poster has never been folded and has three shallow nicks along the edge. Excellent condition overall and suitable for framing. "Prof. Hoffman" was Michael Hoffman who operated the circus from Omaha Nebraska from 1928 to 1932 when he moved his family to Humboldt Saskatchewan. The circus is believed to have stopped touring in 1943 with the last show at Muenster Saskatchewan on Sep 29th. This item will be shipped rolled into a mailing tube. Other photos available; inquiries welcome. <br/> <br/> Enterprise Show Print 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
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
1994A2727Virgin Records Us 1994-09-20. Audio CD. Like New. Complete box set. 6 Original CDs cases inserts Booklet and box all in excellent condition. Virgin Records Us unknown
198456658n.p.: Ringling Bros 1984. 113th/Congress Edition. good. Oversized 80 wraps profusely illus. in color some creasing to top edge of covers & text. This Congressional edition is presented by Andy Ireland 10th District Congressman Florida. There is a special cover indicating that this is Cong. Ireland's Sixth Annual Night at the Circus Wednesday April 6 1983 D.C. Armory. Heavily illustrated souvenir program from perhaps the most famous circus of the 20th century with roots back to P. T. Barnum the most famous exhibitor of the 19th century and a force behind the Madison Square Garden venue in New York City. Ringling Bros paperback
69-3680Paris France: Theatre de la Menagerie du Cirque D'Hiver. 60 x 40 cm. Offset Color Lithograph. Very Good. Paris, France: Theatre de la Menagerie du Cirque D'Hiver unknown
0936123052.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
188153115Munich: Konigliche Hof-Buch- und Kunsthandlung Adolf Ackerman 1881. Folio. 4 pp unpaginated. printed in red & black w/ decorated woodcut-engraved borders. With 36 pen & ink sketch plates tipped-in to 28 thick paper boards each w/ red woodcut-engraved borders & red lettering in lower fore-edge of plate. Original blue-gray pictorial publisher’s cloth folding portfolio elaborate gilt & black lettering & illustration of horse trainer raising horses up on their hind legs decorative endpapers binder’s tick of G. Fritsche Book binder Leipzig on lower front pastedown minor rubbing very minor shelfwear slight toning to text leaves a couple very small closed tears repaired w/ archival repair tape at fore-edges still a VG bright copy. First edition of this beautifully illustrated homage to the 19th-century circus horse trick riders jugglers clowns and trapeze artists. All of the sepia-tinted plates have been executed with great precision and energy displaying a tremendous vitality and talent. Lang 1838-1891 studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich studied horses in the veterinary schools and stud farms of the Princes of Thurn and Taxis. He traveled extensively and his circus illustrations have become quite desirable by enthusiasts. Konigliche Hof-Buch- und Kunsthandlung Adolf Ackerman, hardcover
58388Vogue 1973 Double album avec un livret de 16 pages - bande dessinee exemplaire signé par le compositeur Nb-0296 unknown
a79305Paris 1960-1966 Club du Cirque. 26 consecutive separate issues of this circus magazine. In French. 4to. about 32pp. per issue monochrome photo illustrations original wraps. VG plus. Excellent condition. . paperback
2336415348.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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
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
51-5165Gueures France: 1936. 14 pages with 9 watercolors. 21 x 13.5 cm.The images are caricatures of a skiing trip with both humans and circus animals. Also included are manuscript and typescript poems from 1941. May or not have been by someone associated with the Cirque though it seems to satirize officials in the company by their titles. The same person signed the maquette and poems.Tapuscrit d'un numéro de la revue du cirque de Médrano daté 1936 avec aquarelles originales: frontispice et 9 aquarelles dans le texte l'une pleine page. 21 x 13 cm // Manuscrit intitulé Appellations contrôlées situé Lyon.Expertise by Alain NICOLAS; 41 quai des Grands Augustins - 75006 PARIS France .« En 1931 les rois du rire Antonet et Béby se surpassèrent. L’année suivante débuta par une pantomime intitulée Espana qui permit de mettre en valeur le toréador du fil-de-fer l’incomparable Con Colleano. Ensuite les clowns Andreu-Rivel et leur frère Charlie dans sa parodie de Charlot au trapèze firent rire aux éclats. Il y eut aussi La revue de Medrano qui permit d’apprécier de jeunes clowns Despard et Rhum puis on assista au retour de Grock assisté de Lolé et de l’accordéoniste Fier. » Une grande fantaisie clownesque intitulée Rhum à Rome avec l’Auguste vedette Enrico Sprocani dit Rhum entouré de son partenaire Charles Manetti de ses confrères Alex Bugny Porto Tony Recordier et Boulicot démarra l’année 1936.Le 17 février Jérôme Medrano organisa sous l’égide du journal l’Intransigeant et de Radio-Cité un gala au profit de la veuve du plus grand clown du XXe siècle Antonet. En moins de 48 heures toutes les places furent vendues. Ce spectacle exceptionnel réunit sur la Piste toutes les vedettes du spectacle de l’époque de Maurice Chevalier à Fernandel.Cette année là des étoiles de la Piste comme Alfred Court dans la Paix dans la Jungle les rois du rire les cyclistes Nicol et Martin les jongleurs sur fil Reverhos la troupe de lilliputiens de Ritter Lalo Codona et ses nouveaux partenaires tinrent le haut de l’affiche. On assista aussi avec joie au retour des Fratellini.Cette année là des étoiles de la Piste comme Alfred Court dans la Paix dans la Jungle les rois du rire les cyclistes Nicol et Martin les jongleurs sur fil Reverhos la troupe de lilliputiens de Ritter Lalo Codona et ses nouveaux partenaires tinrent le haut de l’affiche. On assista aussi avec joie au retour des Fratellini. Gueures, France: 1936 unknown
10291Circa 1910. With stamp of 'Mrs. Gill Translating Office Ludgate Hill London EC.'. The story on nine numbered 4to pages with a covering page carrying the title: 'THE BATTLE OF THE WAVES FOR FREEDOM. By Maxim Gorki.' On the rectos of ten 4to leaves attached by a brass pin. Text clear and complete at 26 lines to the page. On worn discoloured paper watermarked 'CONQUEROR LONDON' with loss to extremities. Mrs Gill's purple oblong stamp in bottom left-hand corner of reverse of last leaf: 'Mrs. GILL <.> ATING OFFICE <.> GATE HILL <.> ON EC.' A political parable with the narrator in a 'little sailing boat' told by 'an old weather-beaten tar' how 'the sea does not allow itself to be tied and bound'. First paragraph begins: 'A brilliant sun and a warm air. The sea was sinking into a calm though every now and then it rose again in slow majestic waves.' Certainly dating from before 1915 by which time Mrs Gill's Typing Office had moved from Ludgate Hill to Paternoster Row and probably dating from the period of Gorky's first foreign exile 1906 to 1913. Mrs L. A. Shiffner was active as a translator from Russian in 1904; Mrs Alice Gill did work for Gissing see his Collected Letters. I have yet to trace a published version of this story. [Circa 1910.] With stamp of 'Mrs. Gill, Translating Office, Ludgate Hill, London EC.' unknown
1890J62618New York: McLoughlin Bros. 1890. Softcover. Fair. Chromolith full page & text illustrations and including doublepage center spread of Grand Entry of Caravan of Moors & Arabs. Octavo 9.9x7.2" chromolith covers of Arab rider with inset puma lower cover dancer inset Bison worn & creased edge chipping & corner loss more to lower cover neat name to lower cover 16pp incl. both covers. All illustrations complete tho' 2 captions with some loss all margins with fingering and some creasing. Inner hinges repaired but original staples still present. A sought for title priced to reflect condition. McLoughlin Bros. paperback
1827D6FA25RBPUPBAustria 1827. Oblong folio ca. 40 x 46 cm. With a large woodcut illustration ca. 27 x 38 cm. The text is set in a Gothic type. 1 l. Very attractive early 19th-century broadside with a beautiful large woodcut of a spectacular medieval show enlivened with fireworks. The text below announces the show of a gymnastics circus company under the direction of Bartholomäus Ramini dates unknown. According to the playbill the show consisted of four parts: an acrobatic performance by a four-year old; a horse dressage by "lustige Kaspar"; an acrobatic act with among others balancing and a human pyramid; and a play of "Otto der Stählerne im Kampfe mit dem rothen Feuerriesen und die Befreiung der Prinzessin Clotilde" translation: Otto the man of steel fighting with the red fire giant and the liberation of Princess Clothilde which included fireworks. This last part of the performance has also been mentioned as part of another circus show which was held at Prague in June 1827 under the direction of a citizen of Prague named "Beranek" Journal für Kunst Literatur und geselliges Leben. The present broadside most likely announces the same theatre or circus company now performing in a different location.The work has been folded in the past. Otherwise in very good condition.l Cf. Journal für Kunst Literatur und geselliges Leben nr. 74 21 June 1827 p. 592. hardcover
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
1892List3690N.p. 1892. Folio 9 ½ x 11 ½ inches. 17 pp. Pink printed newsprint wrappers with photographic portrait of John H. Sparks on the front cover. Covers detached paper toned and fragile as typical of newsprint; fair to good overall. An unrecorded music folio issued for the traveling circus of John H. Sparks in the early 1890s self-described as “The Best Collection of Music Ever Published.†Sparks based in Ohio was building his circus during this period into a touring wagon show combining trained animal acts equestrian performances and sideshow attractions. Sparks toured widely presenting afternoon and evening performances and like other traveling acts relied heavily on printed ephemera for revenue. Songs include “Waiting to Hear the Verdict†by Chales Osbourne; “Annie Reilly†by Johnnie Carroll; “Don’t Abuse the Old Folks†by Will H. Fox; “When the Sea Gives Up its Dead†by J.J. Nolan; “When Summer Comes Again†by James Thornton; “The White Squadron†by Arthur West; “Wait Till My Ship Comes Home†by John Walsh; “My Old Dutch†by Charles Ingle; and “Buy a Nice Little Home in the Country†by Ed. Barry. Several compositions are copyrighted by Frank Harding 1864–1939 at the Royal Copyright Office which is peculiar and suggest the possibility that this was for an English audience though Sparks is not known to have toured England during this period. Harding was a New York music publisher who operated Frank Harding’s Music House at 229 Bowery during the formative years of Tin Pan Alley. unknown
CA13AA-00147Lee Bursten. Collectible - Like New. Signed by Circo Marchetti on card. Full Color Edition. Fine book deck and box. In polypropylene bag. tarot Inquire if you need further information. Lee Bursten unknown
8888493883.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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
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
200116588JNew York: Thomas Dunne Books 2001. First American Edition. Near fine in a near dust jacket. Hardcover.". a dark and whimsical tale about a group of circus performers who disillusioned with their lives as traveling entertainers are seduced by the idea of settling down and living like ordinary people. Thomas Dunne Books hardcover