Circus Ring by Bruce, Mary Grant

Ward, Lock, London, Melbourne and Cape Town, No date. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Mary Tarrant. with a black and white frontispiece which replicates the colour illustrated dust jacket. Muir gives a probable artist and as Mary Tarrant. Red coloured cloth covered boards with black coloured titles to the back strip. Colour illustrated dustwrapper with red and black coloured titles to the front panel and black and white coloured titles to the back strip. This is numbered 258 on the spine by the publisher. A glimpse of circus life from the perspective of the circus performers. All softening of the back strip edges and rubbing of the book corners. Fading of the back strip and patchy fading of the book panels. Light browning of the text block edges and staining to the lower text edge. Offset tanning to the end pages with age toning of the pages. A little chipping of top dustwrapper corners and back strip edges. Minor rubbing of the dustwrapper… Read More

England: Ward Lock, 1950. Book. Very good-. Hardcover. Circa 1950-60 reprint. Large name and dealer stamp to front free endpaper. Old price to front cover.

Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, 1111. Hardcover. Good/Good. No edition remarks. 192 pages. Dust jacket over red cloth. Prize award to front endpaper. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light rubbing all over. Mild water droplet to lower front joint. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Mild foxing to surfaces. Light rubbing and marking all over.

Ward Lock, London. Hardcover. Good Condition/Very Good. Size: 12mo (7 to 8 inches). Binding tight, spine fine. Minor wear to Dust Jacket. Edges moderately browned/ foxed..

London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1950 Undated, but c. 1950. 12mo. original red cloth gilt (a little rubbed and sunned, a few leaf edge spots, else internally clean; lacks dustwrapper); pp. 192, with frontispiece. A very good copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG+/No Jacket.

London: Ward Lock Book. Good. Hardcover. Reprint. 125mm x 190mm. Jacket has moderate general wear and no tears. Foxing to edges of page-block. Minor internal foxing. Binding tight. Undated (1950s) 191pp.

London: Ward, Lock and Co., Limited, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London, Ward, Lock and Co., Limited, [1936]. Octavo, 256 pages plus numerous plates. Black-pictorial green cloth; covers slightly bowed; pencilled ownership details, and ink gift inscription (on half-title); endpapers lightly tanned; an excellent copy with the lightly rubbed dustwrapper with a short (45mm) closed tear and an associated crease.

London: Ward, Lock & Co. , 1936. 1st edition. Very Good. octavo. orig. dec. cloth 256pp., frontis., b/w ills., Part of prize label to ffep, sl. foxing o/w VG