Search Results: PERFORMING ARTS - Circus Books

Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001. Soft cover. Fine. Large 4to. 184pp. Biblio & index. Profusely illustrated in color with circus photos & art.

New York: Scribner, 1995 First Printing. Fine/Fine. Not remainder marked or price clipped.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Broadway Books, 1999. VG/ VG. Hardcover. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York: Broadway Books, 1999. Book. Illus. by Jon Worden. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition (stated).. FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition (stated). The author of 'Fire in the Belly' discusses his late-blooming enthusiasm for the acrobatics of trapeze artistry, presenting his views on the opportunities it offers for personal growth and transformation, as well as describing the elaborate formal training process of trapeze artistes, the various individual skills acquired, the joys, dangers, and thrills, the psychology involved, much more. Hardcover with dust jacket, illustrated, 244pp. A very nice copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Doubleday Brief gift inscription (on a blank page) else Fine condition in bright, shiny Near Fine Dust Jacket. No chips. No tears. No remainder marks. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Clean, square, tight, and unmarked. "First Edition" is so stated, with complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. Captivating true story of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus fire, which took the lives of 167 people in Hartford, Connecticut in 1944. Illustrated with dozens of contemporary photos. The endpapers feature full-color reproductions of the actual circus posters for the July 5-6, 1944 performances in Hartford.. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Brown spine / brown boards/DJ Not Price Clipped (24.95). 8vo. xiii, 370pp. .

Austin, Texas: Eakin Press, 1988. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Very slight spotting to top edge of page block, barely noticeable, else a fine copy. Inscribed by the author to the previous owners. 83 pages with Glossary of Circus Terms and Bibliography. A biography of the woman known throughout Texas as "Aunt Mollie" who ran and traveled with the Mollie A. Bailey Show for nearly half a century..

Cincinnati, OH: Brockwell Company, ( 1925 ). First edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo, 250 pages, red cloth, nicked front pastedown, corner of a divisional half-title page lacking. Introductory letter from William Howard Taft. The author's father, John Robinson was the third of fourn John Robinsons of a multi-generational circus family in the 19th and 20th centuries in the Midwest. They gave their name to a circus phrase to "John Robinson". This is a full account by a descendant who also performed. Plates.

Henry Holt And Co., 1990. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Square 8vo; xxii, 504 pages, clothbaked boards "All the stories are told in this book. The researcgh has taken thirty-three years; the writing, seven. And the reason I wanted to tell their stories goes back in my memoiryt to the year I was two years old, and in the traditions of my family a long way before that - Preface." Extensively illustrated, adn with a Chronology of the Circus in America, 1785 -1990.

October 1933; 1st edition. Very Good HC, no DJ. Red cloth over boards, gilt stamped titles on front cover; unprinted spine. Bright, clean covers and spine; lightly scuffed; tightly bound and square in case; owner names on front end papers; light, clean interior with slight general age darkening; pages opposite full page plates more age darkened, especially at page edges. 8vo, 203 pp; many illustrations.

1944. Paper. Fair. No Binding. 7 X 11 Inches. Single, tan sheet folded to 7 X 11 inches, creating four panels of printed information about the event, with the rear panel displaying a Coca-Cola ad and a picture of cowboy film star Hoot Gibson. Horizontal crease, edge tears, a shallow corner chip, and some faint staining along the fold. Writing on the rear panel in green ink indicating the attendance date. Cover photo of a cowboy on a bucking bronc. Opening the program to the interior panels reveals credits for the production of the event and a list of rodeo events, with blanks to fill in name and place for contestants, and circus-like performances, such as trick and fancy horse riding, trick roping, etc. A scarce program for this Chicago performance of the traveling rodeo/circus during World War II..

Vienna, VA: Feld Entertainment, ( 1999 ). First edition. Hardcover. Fine/issued without. 4to, unpaginated, red and gold cloth; with a few inked identifications by the original owner. This American circus operated for only one season, 1999-2000. and combined contemporary circus acts and tradiional European-style performances. "It was the first Ringlin show to be held under a tent since 1956 and also its first one-ring presentation in more than a century. [with] an intimate setting with seating for 1,800 on cushioned seats and sofas and no one further than 50 feet from the circus ring. ... The show consisted of 62 performers, 54 crew members, 6 horses and 27 geese - Wikipedia." This copy is autographed throughout by performers Sylvia Zertoni, Olga Rogacheva, Professor Nuts, Ronald Regan, Regina Bouglione, and three others. Color photographs throughout.

Melbourne, Australia: Melbourne Books, 2011. Softcover. As New/no jacket. 273pp, illustrations throughout, 28cm tall, quarto. Author's bold signature on title page, ghost of signature on next leaf.

San Francisco: Chronicle, 1994. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 4to, cloth No. 1120 of 2483 copies, signed and numbered by the author. Also inscribed by Fraley in 1995.