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When the Circus Came to Town: The Circus Story with a Pictorial Array.

When the Circus Came to Town: The Circus Story with a Pictorial Array.

by Dean M. Aungst

Condition
Used - VG+
Published
1976
Binding
Soft cover
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1
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Bluffton, South Carolina, USA
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$18.00

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Lebanon, PA: Applied Arts Publishers, 1976. Soft cover. VG+. 3rd printing (1976, c1969), 4to, stapled illustrated wraps, 40 pages, b/w illustrations (mostly photographs) throughout. Condition: VERY GOOD+ with slight edgewear at corners. Covers the "Stupendous, Colossal, Gigantic" in the Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus Story: Circus parades, wagons, the Wild West, Acts and Performers, Side Shows,… Read more about this item
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$18.00
Circus Heroes and Heroines

Circus Heroes and Heroines

by Rhina Kirk

Condition
Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition
Near Fine
Edition
1st Edition
Published
1972
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN
9780843738797
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1
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Bluffton, South Carolina, USA
Item Price
$23.00

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Maplewood, NJ: Hammond, Inc., 1972. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 1st edition (no printing statement), small 4to, navy cloth, 93 pages, color and b/w illustrations, glossary, bibliography. Condition: NEAR FINE book / NEAR FINE jacket: like new, jacket is clipped at the top, but price is at the bottom unclipped. Offers brief profiles of famous circus… Read more about this item
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$23.00
Circus! An Investigation into What Makes the Sawdust Fly.

Circus! An Investigation into What Makes the Sawdust Fly.

by Alan Wykes.

Condition
Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition
Near Fine
Edition
1st Edition
Published
1977
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN
9780904041774
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1
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Bluffton, South Carolina, USA
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$23.00

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London: Jupiter Books, 1977. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 1st edition (no additional printings), lg 8vo, mustard colored boards, 142 pages, b/w illustrations throughout, glossary, bibliography. Condition: NEAR FINE book / NEAR FINE jacket: like new. Wykes gives us a light-hearted history of the circus - the unusual and the little known beginning with the Roman… Read more about this item
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$23.00
The Wandering Patentee; or, a History of the Yorkshire Theatres, from 1770 to the Present Time... Volume 4 only.
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The Wandering Patentee; or, a History of the Yorkshire Theatres, from 1770 to the Present Time... Volume 4 only.

by Tate Wilkinson

Condition
Used - Good
Edition
1st Edition
Published
1795
Binding
Hardcover
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1
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Bluffton, South Carolina, USA
Item Price
$53.00

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York: Wilson, Spence, and Mawman, 1795. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. .Interspersed with Anecdotes Respecting Most of the Performers in the Three Kingdoms, from 1765 to 1795." Volume 4 only, with front board detached. 1st edition, 16mo, ¾ leather and marbled boards (bound by H. Wood), marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, 267 pages. Condition is GOOD: front board… Read more about this item
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$53.00
The Victorian Theatre: A Pictorial Survey
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The Victorian Theatre: A Pictorial Survey

by Southern, Richard

Condition
Used - VG
Jacket Condition
VG
Published
1970
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN
9780715349687
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1
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Bluffton, South Carolina, USA
Item Price
$15.00

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Newton Abbot, UK: David & Charles, 1970. Hardcover. VG/VG. Label on title page: "The Reader's Union Group of Book Clubs in association with.. [David & Charles]", 8vo, gray boards, 112 pages, color frontispiece, b/w illustrations throughout, bibliography. VERY GOOD book / VERY GOOD jacket: book has gentle bumping to corners, owner name on front endpaper,… Read more about this item
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$15.00
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Josef Shaftel's production of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Josef Shaftel's production of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

by Shaftel, Josef. Lewis Carroll.

Condition
Used - VG
Edition
First Edition
Published
1972
Binding
Soft cover
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1
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Bluffton, South Carolina, USA
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$28.00

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London: 20th Century-Fox Company, Ltd / Odhams Ltd., 1972. First Edition . Soft cover. VG. 1st edition. The musical film program of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which includes photographs of the film and the players, all the best of the British stage and screen (Michael Crawford, Robert Helpmann, Hywel Bennett,Spike Milligan, Dudley Moore, Ralph Richardson, Flora… Read more about this item
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Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus: The Greatest Show on Earth; 110th edition; produced by Irvin and Kenneth Feld. Souvenir Program..

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus: The Greatest Show on Earth; 110th edition; produced by Irvin and Kenneth Feld. Souvenir Program..

by Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

Condition
Used - VG
Published
1981
Binding
Soft cover
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1
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Bluffton, South Carolina, USA
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$15.00

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Ringling Bros,- Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows, 1981. Soft cover. VG. Souvenir program, 1981, 110th edition. 4to, illustrated stapled wraps, unpaginated, color illustrations and photographs throughout, poster intact and still attached. VERY GOOD: corners slightly curled; rubbing to spine; 2 small (1/2") tears back cover and last two pages. Article on "The Circus Spec.enduring yet ever… Read more about this item
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$15.00