Hardcover. New York, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 168 pages. Hardcover. Full color illustrations. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Watson-Guptill Publications, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 448 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Softcover. Barcelona, Editorial Noguer, First Edition, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 62 pages. Softcover with full color photograph to wraps. Light wear to edges, some tanning & small chips to spine. 62 pages of text followed by 60 pages of photographs in black & white. Clean & unmarked.
Softcover. Jeannette PA, privately printed, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages, heavy orange stock wrappers. This is a notable book of circus history that lists most, if not all, the important circus companies and related entertainment shows that performed across the United States from 1800 through 1942. The compiler was an agent for many traveling shows which are listed here.
Hardcover. New York, Playbill Magazine, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 359 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Black cover boards, gilt title stamped on spine and front cover. Cover boards excellent. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of fading to the spine (shelf wear) and rubbing to front of dj, otherwise DJ very good. Edges and pages clean. In great shape. Looks at 100 years of individual Broadway theaters. Takes a fun look at the shows and the stars who "walked the boards", through pictures and stories. Perfect for the theater enthusiast.
Hardcover. Bloomington, iUniverse, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED ON FRONT FLY LEAF BY AUTHOR. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Company, Reprint, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 676 pages. Hardcover. Navy publisher's cloth boards with gilt titles to cover & spine. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Light fray to crown of spine, scuffing to corners. Light toning throughout. Clean & unmarked pages throughout. Features wide array of authors, includes appendices on authors, notes on production of plays, index of characters among other topics.
Softcover. China, Peking Foreign Languages Press, 1st Paperback Edition, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 107 pages. Softcover. French flaps. Full color illustrations throughout. Slight tanning to pages and edges. Wrapper has tanning, but in very good condition. Binding excellent. Amazing images of Chinese acrobat performance.
Hardcover. San Antonio, TX, Naylor Company, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, A History of the Circus in America. Pictorial end papers. Color frontis. Red and black printed title page. 269 pages. Illustrated color and black and white plates. 8vo. Red pictorial cloth. Very colorful pictorial dust jacket, edge chipped, splits taped.
Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, USA, rep., September 24, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 262 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 326 pages. Pale green cloth covers with gilt titles to spine, dust jacket with illustration. Light rubbing to dust jacket edges, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; overall, a very clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 216 pages, frontispiece portrait of Gaspar. Gray paper wrappers.
Hardcover. London, England, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1st, 19541st, 256 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has some agewear, covered in clear plastic brodart. Top edge dyed brown. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Some light tanning from age to edges and pages, otherwise clean. Binding tight, spine straight. A look at the first night performance of Shakespeare's play, "Twelfth Night".
Hardcover. London, Saturn Press, 1st, 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, 69 pages, illustrated with b&w illustrations and 2-color playbills. Red cloth covers with gilt lettering, light shelf wear. Dust jacket has soil, tape repair, two holes in front panel.
Hardcover. New York, NYU Press, Reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 500 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with minor edgewear. Black and white images throughout. Tight copy.
New York, Doubleday, 1st, 1988, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 210 pages. A pictorial history of the movie star's personal life, B&W photos. Like new condition.
Hardcover. Washington, DC, Department of the Army, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 342 pages, b&w illustrations and fold-out maps. Black covers w/ faded gilt lettering, light rubbing to front cover. Foxing to edges. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Baton Rouge LA, Louisiana State University, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 273 pages, paperback. A full and accurate treatment of the important gunboat operations in the western theater of the Civil War. Previous owner's name label on front endpaper. Mild rubbing and edgewear to wraps. Otherwise unmarked. A bright and tight copy.