Performing Arts from Bygone Books

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

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

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

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

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

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

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