circus

Hardcover. Buffalo NY, Annick Press, 1st US, 1994, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, laminated pictorial boards. No dust jacket. Color illustrations by Bernard Oberdieck. No dust jacket. A rare white owl who has always lived in a cage in a travelling circus is bought by the gardener at a nearby castle, who lets her out of her cage in the attic to scare the mice. When the opportunity for escape presents itself, the owl hesitates. Freedom means taking responsibility and risks. Clean copy.

Softcover. Cincinnati OH, Cincinnati Art Museum, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 264 pages with color illustrations throughout. This exhibition catalog contains 80 full-page vintage posters, another 100 posters and archival photographs illustrate the text. Beautiful, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, mustard cloth covers. Delightul two color illustrations on every page by Daugherty. Winner of a Caldecott Honor Award when it first appeared in 1939, a picture book with simple text about young farmboy Andy, who went to the library to get a book about lions only to meet one that escaped from a circus and befriends him. Blank label on front fly leaf otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Scribners, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. Etchings by Barbara Garrison. Not Ex-library. A bright, clean copy. Boris the bear receives dancing lessons from his friend Max, a dancing bear with the Moscow Circus.

Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages. A large, beautifully designed photography publication with many full page photographs in black and white and color. Glossy wraps. Aperture's second Explorations issue presents heretofore undiscovered images by photographers whose work is bound to become widely known. They probe the metaphysical through ritual, invoke dark metaphors in circus performance, find religion in nocturnal deserts, and study the ties that bind. The convergence of these uniquely powerful images and the artists' personal stories provokes an examination of the ever expanding boundaries of contemporary photography.Artists included are Stephen Barker, Neil Folberg, Jill Graham, Kimberly Gremillion, Jan van Leeuwen, Anne Arden McDonald, Andreas Rentsch, Maruch Santiz Gomez, and Dayanita Singh.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket. 180 pages with index. An account of the infamous showman and his adventures after descending on Victorian London in the 1840s. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Golden Press, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, laminated boards. Color illustrations by Feodor Rojankovsky. First published in 1949, this appears to be a 70s reprint, code letters inside rear cover stop at J. A big elephant leaves the circus, builds a house, helps the townspeople, and finds happiness. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Ecco Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 60 pages. Gathers portraits of ministers, drifters, amputees, jockies, circus performers, night people, family members, miners, couples, musicians, and fisherman, and discusses the nature of portraiture.

Hardcover. Akron OH, Saalfield Publishing, reprint, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth cover with pictorial design stamped in black and gilt. Color frontis plus b&w plates by Arthur DeBebian. Billy, our favorite goat, escapes from his comfortable farm home and causes absolute chaos in a travelling circus. Rescued by his master, he is then kidnapped and made to perform. Clean copy. Light shelf wear.

Hardcover. Akron OH, Saalfield Publishing, reprint, 1913, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 147 pages, illustrated by Arthur Debebian in b&w and 6 color plates. Blue cloth spine, color illustrated boards. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Fragile binding but all there and holding. Vol. 5 in this series.

Hardcover. Honesdale, Boyds Mills Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 31 pages. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR BARRY MOSER ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman and Company, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with pictorial label on front cover. 13 full page plates by James Cannon. Horses depicted include The Hunter, Sheltand Pony, Cowboy and Pinto, American Saddle Horse and Policeman; Circus Horse and Bareback rider.

Hardcover. Steidl Publishing, 1st thus, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & White is the definitive collection of Bruce Davidson's black and white photography, spanning a period of 40 years. This collectable five-volume set comprises re-prints of classic books of Davidson's poignant and purposeful imagery, some of them newly edited and expanded. 5 clothbound volumes in a cloth slipcase; volume 1 - Circus: 108 pages, roughly 80 tritone plates; volume 2 - Brooklyn Gang: 120 pages, roughly 95 tritone plates; volume 3 - Time of Change: 168 pages, roughly 145 tritone plates; volume 4 - East 100th Street: 168 pages, roughly 150 tritone plates; volume 5 - Central Park: 144 pages, roughly 90 tritone plates.4tos, cloth in slipcase. Gottingen, Steidl, 2012. Limited Edition of 2,000 sets. A certificate, hand signed and numbered by the artist at end of volume 1. DUE TO SIZE AND WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. Milano, Longanesi & Co., 1st, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 94 pages. Text in Italian. Light edgewear to wrappers, faint foxing to edges and end papers.

Softcover. Fairfield CT, Cartoonist Profiles, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 94 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Quarterly magazine for cartoon fans, articles, interviews and biographies on cartoonists and their work. Articles on Bill Keane and Family Circus, Roy Crane, Milton Caniff, C.C. Beck's Human Bomb, Mort Leav: TV art director and comic book artist.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with white titles. 146 pages, illustrated with b&w photos. Fading to cloth spine, name on front endpapers, otherwise clean, very good.

Softcover. Rootstock Publishing, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 316 pages, b&w illustrations. Circle of Sawdust is a uniquely personal story of the wild characters, fascinating personalities, remarkable histories, and behind-the-scenes world of traditional traveling circuses. Here is a true-life tale about a boy's impulse to run off and join the circus and then-through doubt, failure, loss, and tragedy-pursue the implausible vision of starting his own circus! With humor and passion, founder of Circus Smirkus Rob Mermin writes about the precarious life of a creative artist, the ups and downs of taking risks, and the idealistic struggle to hold onto a dream. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers with white lettering. 90 pages illustrated in b&w by Slobodkin. No dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, Book Club, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by the Petershams. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Some tape stains on front and rear endpapers. "Parents' Magazine's Read Aloud Book Club" seal on back cover and jacket. Fading along front top edge of dust jacket. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Kenosha WI, John Martins House, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated in color and black & white by Sari. 32 pages. cardboard covers, worn at corners, previous owner's inscription on inside cover. light soil.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hard cover. 194 pages. Black & white illustrations by George M. Richards. Red top edge. Light spine wear. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, soiling. Clear plastic protective cover. Bookseller's label front end paper.

Softcover. NY, Harmony Books, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages. A photographic documentation of the Beatty-Cole Circus, recording and portraying the customs, activities, animals, and singular personalities of an endangered way of life. "I wanted to document the backstage everyday life of this ancient closed society and the people who live in it." Full-page b/w photos. Wrappers with light wear.

Softcover. New York, McLoughlin Brothers, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 12 pages, un-numbered. Softcover with stapled binding. Light wear to paper wrappers. Illustrated in full color on all pages. Previous owner's name in pencil on front wrapper.

Hardcover. New York , HarperCollins, reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover reissue of a book first published in 1956 written by Jack Sendak and illustrated by his brother, Maurice. SIGNED BY MAURICE SENDAK. Flora, a little circus girl, wonders what the people who come to the circus do when they are not at the circus. Illustrated in black-and-white and pastel pink and green. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket.