Circus

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, 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. 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.

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.

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.

Hardcover. London/Calcutta, Seagull Books , 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Circuses provide surreal, fantastic entertainment. At times magical and at others chilling, the circus is a world of magic and spectacle for the viewer, but for the performer, a career in the circus often brings with it a nomadic, lonely life. In Circus Girl, photographer Saibal Das captures beautiful and unusual images of circus girls, photographs which evokes this sense of darkness and resignation that underlies the otherworldly feats they perform under the big top. For instance, in one photograph, a circus girl whose act involves a lioness is seen sitting in front of a mirror putting on her makeup. The lioness that she usually whips in the ring stands behind her, her paw touching the girl's shoulder affectionately. But both wear a solemn look. In another, the girl sits on her props, staring silently at the snack packets strewn on the ground. The giant marquee is empty. Internationally renowned mime Nola Rae provides a haunting accompanying text that poetically comments on the transient wanderings of the circus performers who often yearn for a conventional family life while donning their costumes and taking hold of the trapeze. Rae gives voice to the circus girls, articulating the thoughts too often hidden by the brilliant illusion of stage lights.

NY, Golden Book, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. Color illustrations by the author. Step right up and see the dazzling displays and sensational sights of the brightest circus parade ever. From the golden calliope wagon to the proud pachyderms, each page of detailed delights will keep readers rapt. A treat for both young and old; no one will want to miss the clowns in cars and penguins in pools; ferocious felines and aerial artistry--everything that's marvelous and magical about the legendary big top! So get yourself some peanuts and cotton candy and settle in for the greatest parade on earth.

Hardcover. New York, North South Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Peter Kuhner. Clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Lausanne, Librairie Marguerat , 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 157 pages, b&w and tipped-in color plates. French text. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Edge wear, rubbing to dust jacket. Foxing to top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Company, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket. The dean of Ringling Brothers-Barnum and Bailey Circus' Clown College tells the story of the school and of his life as a clown. 400 pages, b&w drawings by Ballantine. Fading to dust jacket spine.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 319 pages, b&w photos. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket with a couple closed tears, mild soil.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, 1st US, 1950, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 64 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Trier. Cover and spine worn, chipped. Walter Trier was a Czech-German illustrator, best known for his work for the children's books of Erich Kastner and the covers of the magazine Lilliput. This is a sequel to his Dandy the Donkey first published in 1943. Book is fragile with shakey binding.

Hardcover. New York, Holiday House, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Rounds. Dust jacket with rubbing, minor chipping.

Hardcover. NY/Tokyo, Weatherhill, 3rd pr., 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Delightful illustrations depict the imaginative and illogical world of a fantasy circus where the musicians' instruments are matchsticks and kitchenware, and fierce lions turn into wooden toys.

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated in b&w by the author. Tim is so discouraged and bored by life at home and school that he seizes a chance to join a circus, not knowing what really awaits him. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated in b&w by the author. Tim is so discouraged and bored by life at home and school that he seizes a chance to join a circus, not knowing what really awaits him. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston , Godine, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by the author. Light edgewear to dust jacket.Tim is so discouraged and bored by life at home and school that he seizes a chance to join a circus, not knowing what really awaits him. Clean copy.