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Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-07-25. Hardcover. Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2004-10-15. Paperback. Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2004-10-15. Paperback. Used:Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Paperback. Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC. Paperback. New. 9x5x0.

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Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1930. Romance of circus life, mostly with a British company in England & continental Europe, though American ideas are also expressed; basis of the 1933 movie. The author, one of 1920s Britain's 'Bright Young Things', worked as a Society reporter and circus publicist before a successful career writing romanticized gypsy & circus stories; this is her first novel. Hardcover, full red cloth, black titling, yellow & blind-stamped decoration. Light wear to book, top edge of rear cover mouse-nibbled; light creasing, minor chipping, & some smudging to jacket. Text clean; 375 pages, including one of circus, Romany, & rhyming slang.. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Small Octavo.

LONDON: VICTOR GOLLANCZ. Novel about life in the Circus. First published in 1930. Hard cover with dust jacket. DJ is a yellow wrapper with black and red titles. Slight wear and small tears on the top edges of the DJ. Very small tear/piece missing on the top edge of the back flap. Not price clipped(the printed price of 3/6 Net is on the front of the DJ). DJ is foxed. The book is a cheap edition(which is stated on the DJ). Red boards. Tanned and foxed pages. Clean, tight pages. Strong binding. Previous owner gift inscription on the front pastedown dated Xmas 1933. Location: NB7 . Very Good. Hardcover. 14TH IMPRESSION. 1933.

Literary Licensing, LLC. paperback. New. 5x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1930. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Reprint edition, preceded by Gollancz and Bobbs-Merrill editions. Owner name, some offsetting to a couple of pages from some clippings, else near fine in near fine dustwrapper (with art by Skrenda). Subtitled on the jacket as "The Romance of a Traveling Circus." Basis for the 1933 film directed by Paul L. Stein and featuring Charles Bickford.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. Very Good Plus/Very Good Dust Jacket. 1930. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Lady Eleanor Smith, daughter of Lord Birkenhead, led a remarkable life, which was, quite literally, part of the great English Circus tradition. Author of several books on the circus, she was a friend to Gypsies and circus folk throughout her life; she wandered into circus life and Gypsy camps all over Europe, and went "tenting" with a circus in England, which provided much of the background for her novel RED WAGON. In it she catches the color, the variety and the movement of a traveling circus; its glamour, its risks, the care-free clowning, the smell of stables, the floodlights and crowd, and most of all endless journeying to circus camps, and from town to town across Britain. This is the first US printing, from 1930, of RED WAGON: THE ROMANCE OF A TRAVELING CIRCUS, in the original red cloth binding, as published by The Bobbs-Merrill Company, though it comes in… Read More