Hardcover. New York , Pantheon, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 193 pages, 183 illustrations, including four tipped-in color plates. Early pictorial study of previously neglected folk Americana, including ship figureheads, weathervanes, cigar-store figures, trade signs, circus and carousel carvings, toys, decoys, and garden sculpture. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. Green Village, NJ, Carousel Art, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 223 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very minor normal wear to jacket, otherwise clean and tight copy.
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.
Softcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap , 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Gail Phillips and James Schucker. Illustrated end papers. Light edgewear to cardboard covers.
Boston , Little, Brown and Company , reprint, 1934, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 299 pages. Illustrated front endpaper, flyleaf, and end flyleaf and end paper. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Previous owner's bookplate. Some pages slightly torn. Light edge wear
NY, Walker and Co., 1st, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Brinton Turkle. Ex-lib with stamping on endpapers, title page, remains of pocket on back paste-down endpaper. Edgewear to corners, edges.
Softcover. Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Museum, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 124 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear to edges and spine, cover slightly sunned, else a very nice, clean, tight copy.
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. London, Tate, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 76 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to laminated boards.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, Book Club, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by the Petershams. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Some tape stains on front and rear endpapers. "Parents' Magazine's Read Aloud Book Club" seal on back cover and jacket. Fading along front top edge of dust jacket. Clean, unmarked pages.
Hardcover. Kenosha, John Martins House, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illust. in color and black & white by Sari. 32 pages. cardboard covers, worn at corners, previous owner's inscription on inside cover. light soil.
Troy NY, The Historian Publishing Co., 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated; Red spiral binding, black and white photographs throughout. Light edge wear. Otherwise, very clean. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR.
Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1st Edition, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Previous owner's impression stamp on front flyleaf. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Dark orange cloth cover boards, with title blind-stamped on front cover board and title in yellow on spine, boards are very good. Pages clean and bright. Top edge has some foxing A photographic documentary of the Great Circus parade in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The circus train travels across Wisconsin and Illinois for two days and arrives in Milwaukee to a show ground set with animal petting zoos, horse tents, bandwagons, and the Big Top.
Softcover. New York, Dover Publications, 1st Dover, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Former circus collection stamps foot title page and inside back cover. Pictorial title page. 332 pages. Illustrated. 8vo. Color pictorial wrappers.
Hardcover. New York, Limited Editions Club, 1st thus, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 123 pages, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR, Claire Van Vliet, relief etchings throughout, number 794 of a limited 2000 copies. Printed cloth board cover with cloth slipcase, clean, bright and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illust. in color by Robert Andrew Parker. Creases to front dj, flap otherwise VG/VG
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. Geneva, Librairie Marguerat Lausanne, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 157 pages, b&w and color photographs. French text. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Edge wear, rubbing to dust jacket. Foxing to top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.
New York, Holiday House, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Rounds. Dust jacket with rubbing, minor chipping.