Search Results: Performing Arts from Bygone Books

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 Robson, Peter Sellers, and others, with Fiona Fullerton as Alice.) Quarto wraps, unpaginated, color photographs. VERY GOOD with sl. edgewear, lt. staining to covers. Interior pages are clean and tight. A wonderful piece of screen and literary history.

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 circus, the medieval travelling show, Astley's in 18th century London, and of course Barnum and the Big Top and more - all accompanied by rare illustrations.

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 personalities such as P. T. Barnum and the Ringling Brothers, Tom Thumb, Clyde Beatty, Annie Oakley, and various clowns, as well as a short history of the origins of the circus. Portraits and classic circus posters from many sources add to the enjoyment.

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 new" by Greg Parkinson which includes vintage circus posters; other articles on Charly Baumann, The King Charles Troupe (the first all-black Circus act in the world), The Flying Segreras, Wardrobe Wizardry, The Flying Padillas, the Ice Follies, and more. Order form for Circus posters and other memorabilia; advertisements for Nabisco, Circus World, Mattel and Walt Disney.

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, first 3 pages have faint spotting, otherwise clean and tight; jacket has slight edgewear.

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 is detached but present, spine has a few pieces missing (see photos), but text block is tight, rear board tight, pages are strikingly clean with a few faint scattered spots to first 5 pages. A shame about the board and only being volume 4 - it's a lovely book! Tate Wilkinson (1739-1803) was the theater manager in the Yorkshire Circuit during the careers of some of British theater's most famous actresses, Dorothea Jordan and Mrs. Siddons (and other Kembles) to name just two. He left us this 4 volume compilation of theater history and anecdotes as well as 4 volumes of his Memoirs.

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, old-time posters, and more.