Search Results: Titles starting with U from Bygone Books

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. Hardcover. NF/NF. 8vo, hardcover brown boards, 223 pages, illus section, 4th printing; INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Author is the daughter of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Condition is NEAR FINE book / NEAR FINE jacket: owner name on fep; signed on title page.

Paris: A. Capendu, Editeur / Emrik and Binger, 1890. Soft cover. VG. Une Soirée au Cirque ABC, "Volume indéchirable sur toile." No publications date noted, but WorldCat says two editions were published in 1890 in France. 4to, stiff illustrated wraps, French text, [12] pages, linen cloth, illustrations by color lithography, front endpapers the alphabet A-Z in capital letters, rear endpaper has letters in lower case, each page provides a poem [in French] and color illustrations of various circus acts: acrobats, flying trapezes, bicycles, chariot races, dogs acts, elephants, horses, seals, kangaroos, pigs, ostriches, lions and tigers and bears (oh my!), ending with a yack and a zebra, and all including the various circus performers. Condition: VERY GOOD with some edgewear, crease to front cover, the spine is rubbed with the paper overlay on the canvas rubbed off in a few places, internally clean. A delightful and very rare piece of Circus and ABC lore.

Ithaca Ny: Cornell University Press / Folger Shakespeare Library, 1964. Soft cover. NF. 2nd printing, 8vo, stapled wraps, 34 pages plus 12 b/w illustrations, bibliographical essay. NEAR FINE: owner name inside front cover.