Im Circus
Sold by White Fox Rare Books and Antiques, ABAA/ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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Used - Hardcover
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Add to basketSold by White Fox Rare Books and Antiques, ABAA/ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Association Member:
AbeBooks Seller since June 4, 2009
Condition: Used - Good
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketN.d., circa 1880s. N.p. 8vo. 19.5 by 13 cm. Unpaginated, 12 pages of color plates, including images on endpapers. As there is no author, illustrator, publisher, printer or date given, we know of no easy way to locate other copies, but we stongly believe this is a scarce book, which was probably sold as a souvenir at circuses in the German-speaking world. The first double paged plate depicts several circus performers -- the MC animal tamer, a pretty lady seated sideways on a horse, a clown, a hound, and a caged lion. On the following pages are shown three or four different circus performers per page, each with an one or two line rhymed description, often with a stage name given. These include clowns, acrobats, equestrians, aerialists, a strongman, performing animals, etc. A few of the acts are ones we didn't know had existed, such as a dancing pig, but it is in the very nature of circus for some novelty acts to come and go, while most are evergreen. Condition: heavy soiling to the cover. A few surface chips to the heavy cardboard stock. Pages of heavy card have heavy age toning. Some loss of paper pastedown on rear cover.
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