King Circus, First Edition (12 results)

Condition: Very Good. 1ST. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 1st. 159 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name held at the Ringling Museum of Art, January 19 to December 28, 1997. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. Richly illustrated with colour plates. *** CONTENTS: Foreword, by David Ebitz; Acknowledgments, by Mark Ormond; Introduction, by Mark Ormond; The dream realized: the building of the Museum, by David Weeks; Early perceptions of the Museum: a worldview, by Heather Ewing; John and Lulu: the newly discovered correspondence, by Eric Zafran; In and out of the auction house: collector to connoisseur, by K. Lee De Groft; A collection of baroque masterpieces, by Eric Zafran; The library: the education of a connoisseur, by Linda R. McKee; The Astor rooms, by Michael Conforti; The Gavet-Vanderbilt-Belmont Collection, by Deborah Krohn; Endnotes. Size: 4to.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. Exhibition calalog. Color plates. First edition (paperback). SIGNED by David Weeks and Linda R. McKee, two of the contributors. Fine in oversized illustrated wraps.

Softcover. First Edition; First Printing. Book condition is Very Good+ in wraps. Text is clean and unmarked, illustrated throughout. ; 10.10 X 7.70 X 0.70 inches; 159 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. the faancy typeface red & light blue cover. Book.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A VG+ unmarked copy which has a touch of wear to corner edges and a small mark to fore edge, internally very clean and unmarked. Published in conjunction with an exhibition 19 January - 28 December 1997. Comprises: The Building of the Museum; Early Perceptions of the Museum; Newly Discovered Correspondence; Collector to Connoisseur; A Collection of Baroque Masterpieces; The Library; The Astor Rooms; The Gavet-Vanderbilt-Belmont Collection; Index of Artists. **** A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.9 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST **** 20A Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: VG+ or Near Fine. Original Program. Circus Poster still stapled inside. The scarce King Tusk issue with the King Tusk poster. A nice copy that most would grade as near fine or even better. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" Tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. From Engravings (illustrator). First Edition. Boston: M.M. Ballou, 1856. First Edition. The February 2, 1856 issue, Volume X, No. 5, Whole No. 239. Numerous illustrations from engravings. Elephant folio size, sewn newsprint wraps, 16 pp. Very Good Plus, with small areas of peripheral darkening, soil on rear cover, small dog ear without loss at some leaves; standard age-toning to the paper. A sturdy example. See scans. Maturin Ballou's paper was quite supple, not at all fragile, and it shows. Sharp, healthy, well-preserved. This issue contains stories, articles, and / or the diverse and now somewhat legendary engravings - here, regarding: cover article, Victor Emmanuel, King of Sardinia, with text and one large portrait engraving; The Contrabandists, or The Secret of A Life / A True Story of the South of France (continuation, with of several chapters; one engraving as illustration; author uncredited here); two full pages (and these are of course large folio pages) of text with six engravings on Arabia - Arab Emigrants, an Arab Plough, an Arabian Market Scene, and Arab Fool/Crazy Man, Arabian Prophesying, and an Arabian party in a tent; Frank Milton's Angel, a story by Mary A. Lowell; a vast two full page engraving of the Battle of Lake Erie (Commodore Perry's Victory), with ships identified at the bottom margin, though two folio pages are too large even for a large-format scanner, and that marginal identification doesn't show in the scan; Stingo Grout, Esquire, a story by Mrs. H.C. Gardner; Mr. Daniel Dingdong (of the firm of Dingdong, Titman and Weasel), a story by Maurice Silingsby; Scenes in the (Circus) Ring, text and one large engraving; Icebergs and Greenlanders (text); Approach to Jerusalem (text); Origin of Plants (text); full rear page article, with very large engraving, of the 1856 Massachusetts House of Representatives; as well as of course a number of short editorials, news pieces, poems, and ads. Please see all scans. Maturin Ballou's 16-page newsprint periodical was already a piece of American history when he, as managing editor of Gleason's Pictorial, bought that - the first successful illustrated weekly newspaper in America - from owner Frederick Gleason in 1855. An early issue under this name. lLng2.

8vo. pp 64. Original publisher's illustrated wraps (a man in red on a trapeze catching a woman), lettered red on spine and blue on the front cover. Boys Friend Library 502. No date, [1919]. Front cover reads: The trans-atlantic co.'s marvellous film serial in story form, featuring Eddie Polo. Faint rubbing, otherwise very good.

Unbound. Condition: Very Good. Advertising poster. Measuring approximately 20½" x 35½". Unbacked. Circus details (approximately 20" x 8½") tipped-on at bottom edge. Old folds with creases with small King Bros. Circus rubberstamp, bottom corner missing (approx. 6½" x 8") with additional loss at the bottom (affecting text), small ink notation and three small tabs adhered at the topedge on verso, very good. The circus is coming to Reading, Pennsylvania, and it is bringing its famous dog and pony show.

Unbound. Condition: Very Good. Advertising poster. Measuring approximately 28" x 21". Unbacked. Lacking circus details at bottom edge. Old folds, moderate edgewear with three long tears, paper residue from previously attached circus details, tiny dampstains and two small tabs adhered at the topedge on verso, about very good. The circus is coming, and it is bringing a menagerie of exotic animals.

Unbound. Condition: Very Good. Advertising poster. Measuring approximately 28" x 29". Unbacked. Circus details (approximately 28" x 9¼") tipped-on at bottom edge. Old folds, three small tabs adhered at the topedge verso, wear, creasing, and a some faint dampstaining on the verso that shows through a bit. Very good. The circus is coming to Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, bringing an angry lion and a hungry hippo.