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Macmillan, NY, 1924. Reprint of 1916 edition. Subtitle: "A new method of physical development for boys and girls based on the Ten Elements of Simple Tumbling and adapted from the practice of professional acrobats." An unusual book: a practical system of physical training built around the circus idea. Contents include how to prepare a show with fake elephants and lions (as well as real animals), clowns, tumbling, acrobatics, and "The Old-Fashioned Minstrel Show" with dialogues. Book is VG+ in blue cloth; very attractive front cover with lots of bright gilt. Dust jacket is VG-, foxed on front cover and crinkled on back cover near bottom edge; great cover photo of 4 boys performing stunt.
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Amateur Circus Life
by Balch, Ernest
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Baby Possum's Queer Voyage
by Burgess, Thornton W. (illustrated by Harrison Cady)
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Whitman, Racine WI, 1927. First printing, 29 pages. Text block sewn into cardboard covers with color illustrations. Each page of text has bright color illustrations by Harrison Cady. One of a series of Burgess books beginning with The Neatness of Bobby Coon. VG: name erased from front endpapers with a slight amount of abrasion; pages very nice; illustrations beautiful, especially the center double-page spread; covers show slight wear, with a small abraded area in lower left corner ofback cover; spine and edges rubbed.
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The Island of Birds
by Fitzroy, Olivia
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Jonathan Cape, London, 1960. Second printing (first published 1954). A very attractive copy in dust jacket. Octavo, 253 pages bound in woven green cloth with burgandy lettering on spine and bird image on cover. Illustrated from drawings by Raymond Sheppard. VG+/VG+: Pages are slightly yellowed, light spotting to side and bottom page edges, but interior is clean and book appears to have been hardly used. Dust jacket has a mild crease at very top of spine, and some light rubbing to spine ends. Jonathan Cape price sticker on front flap. A novel about children helping to set up a wild bird preserve in the Western Isles of Scotland, "forty miles beyond the Outer Hebrides.
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L'Illustre Dompteur
by Guigou, P. (text) & Vimar, A. (pictures)
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E. Plon, Paris, nd. Oblong octavo bound in dark brown silk cloth, cover paste-on illustration. Delightful color illustrations on every page showing circus menagerie at work and at play. VG: binding still tight, wear to corners, some faint staining to back cover. Front endpaper creased; light foxing on right margin of title page; some darkening to page edges; very light staining to front cover. A scarce title by an illustrator known for his comical depiction of animal behavior.
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Pal and Peter
by Gottlieb, William P
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Simon & Schuster, NY, 1956. First printing, "A" on last page. Near mint copy, signed by Bill Gottlieb, who took the photos and wrote the text and supplied family members for posing.
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