LIFE'S A CIRCUS. REMINISCENCES OF LADY ELEANOR SMITH.
by Lady Eleanor Smith
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
Item Price
$150.00$105.00
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About This Item
London - New York - Toronto: Longman's, Green and Co,. Very Good/Good Dust Jacket. 1939. First Edition, Second Impression . Hardcover. 294 pages, 16 photo illustrations. A very good hardcover, clean and solid in original orange boards in scarce dust jacket. Jacket is heavily edgeworn, with small chips and tears, and shows some foxing and staining mostly to rear, but is complete and intact and is now protected in a mylar wrapper.,,,...This is the True first edition (second impression), published by Longman's, Green and Co.London, in 1939, not the later US edition by Doubleday Doran.,,,,,, Lady Eleanor Smith, daughter of Lord Birkenhead, led a remarkable life, which was, quite literally, part of the great English Circus tradition. Author of several books on the circus, she was a friend to Gypsies and circus folk throughout her life; she wandered into circus life and Gypsy camps all over Europe, and went "tenting" with a circus in England, which provided much of the background for her novel RED WAGON. 7013 .
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- Bookseller
- Balcony Books and Records (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7013
- Title
- LIFE'S A CIRCUS. REMINISCENCES OF LADY ELEANOR SMITH.
- Author
- Lady Eleanor Smith
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good/Good Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition, Second Impression
- Publisher
- Longman's, Green and Co,
- Place of Publication
- London - New York - Toronto
- Date Published
- 1939
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