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1912rif. 53602New York: H.N. Tiemann Co. 4 East 30th St. March 1912. One silver gelatin photo. 7.5 x 8.5 in. w/ embossed photographer’s stamp at lower left corner pencil annotations on verso of photo 1 corner w/ very slight loss still VG image with bright strong contrast. This image depicts the famed Renaissance Revival structure based on the Moorish Giralda Tower in Spain at Fifth & Madison Ave. in March 1912. Designed by Stanford White for McKim Mead & White this historic venue included the largest amphitheater in America equipped with a tank for aquatic shows a rooftop theatre cabaret restaurant and concert hall. The Cleopatra spectacle featured 1500 performers including the African-American minstrel troop organized by James Wolfscale featuring his three sons and the rest of the musicians mounted on camels playing their instruments. The show which ran from March 23 - April 22 1912 is perhaps best remembered for the widely reported suffrage rally held by 75 women circus performers of the world’s first “Circus Suffrage Society” and notably snubbed by the socialite Suffrage Movement leaders including Harriet Stanton Blatch. Led by Josie De Mott a bareback trick rider acrobat Zella Florence and included women animal trainers wire walkers hand balancers dancers acrobats and the renowned female Hercules -- Katie Sandwina. This Madison Square Garden was demolished in 1924 after the New York Life Insurance Co. which held the mortgage built their landmark Cass Gilbert-designed New York Life Building and another Madison Square Garden venue was opened on 8th Ave. between 49th and 50th. See: Guide to the H.N. Tiemann & Co. Photograph Collection 1880-1916 New York Historical Society 2013; Abbot & Seroff Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows pp. 166-169; Circus Activism: Barnum’s Female Stars Demand Right To Vote Name Baby Giraffe ‘Miss Suffrage’ at Madison Square Garden Bowery Bows 2012. H.N. Tiemann Co., [4 East 30th St.], unknown
1946rif. 53518Kewanee IL: Bob Parkinson Box 42 ca. 1946. Tall 8vo. 7.25 x 11.25 in. 24 pp unpaginated. thick cardstock w/ die-cut window slots for photos framed in green paper w/ 47 photos inserted sized from 3.25 x 4.75 in up to 4 x 5 in. a few mounted some w/ stamps on versos a few w/ pencil annotations some tipped-in a few mounted on sheets and inserted typed price list and ordering instructions on front pastedown listing many of the photos. Green linen white lettering stamped on front cover slightly shaken some rubbing edgewear still VG exemplar. Very rare photo sample catalogue assembled probably in the 1940s by Bob Parkinson noted circus collector and former director of the Circus World Museum Library and Research Center. The typed price list details the sets of images for sale such as the four photos from glass plate negatives of the Forepaugh Sells Bros. 1898 parade including images of steam calliope and 4 horse team bandwagon and 20 horse team elephant line-up followed by 2 blocks of close order units and more. In addition there are many images of 1908 and 1910 Ringling Bros. circus parades including views of the “Swan” Bandwagon and entire 24 horse team “Persia” tableau and 24 pony team side view “Egypt” tableau with the 16 camel team the entire elephant line-up riders and more. In addition there are added photos of wagons from the Al G. Barnes Circus Cole Bros. Circus later absorbed by Bailey and then Ringling Bros. as well as 101 Ranch Wild West Shows later circus parades in the 1920s the unloading of circus wagons off the Wisconsin Central Railroad flatbed cars loading docks and more. Parkinson explains that his sets for sale from $ 1.35 to $ 6.00 for all of them are taken directly from original glass plate negatives and that he is not charging much more than the printing costs and only trying to recoup his original considerable expense in purchasing the original negatives. Parkinson 1923-1991 began collecting as early as 1936 when he purchased his first Ringling-Barnum Bros. program and followed every circus show within striking distance of Decatur IL. After starting work as an insurance adjustor in 1946 he continued to chase buy & occasionally sell Circus related material assembling a massive collection of field show newspaper ads and was hired as the director of the Circus World Museum Library and Research Center in Baraboo WI from 1965 until his death. It was renamed the Robert L. Parkinson Library & Research Center the same year. Bob Parkinson, Box 42, unknown
1881rif. 53115Munich: Konigliche Hof-Buch- und Kunsthandlung Adolf Ackerman 1881. Folio. 4 pp unpaginated. printed in red & black w/ decorated woodcut-engraved borders. With 36 pen & ink sketch plates tipped-in to 28 thick paper boards each w/ red woodcut-engraved borders & red lettering in lower fore-edge of plate. Original blue-gray pictorial publisher’s cloth folding portfolio elaborate gilt & black lettering & illustration of horse trainer raising horses up on their hind legs decorative endpapers binder’s tick of G. Fritsche Book binder Leipzig on lower front pastedown minor rubbing very minor shelfwear slight toning to text leaves a couple very small closed tears repaired w/ archival repair tape at fore-edges still a VG bright copy. First edition of this beautifully illustrated homage to the 19th-century circus horse trick riders jugglers clowns and trapeze artists. All of the sepia-tinted plates have been executed with great precision and energy displaying a tremendous vitality and talent. Lang 1838-1891 studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich studied horses in the veterinary schools and stud farms of the Princes of Thurn and Taxis. He traveled extensively and his circus illustrations have become quite desirable by enthusiasts. Konigliche Hof-Buch- und Kunsthandlung Adolf Ackerman, hardcover
1931rif. 49819Cleveland OH: The Harter Publishing Co. Educational Publishers 1931. 4to. 4 folding poster leaves 36 x 12 in. printed in black with brown colour printed the posters. Colour-illustrated softcovers cover art by Sampson back cover art contains colour suggestions for the four posters minor edgewear creasing four posters neatly stapled to back cover still VG copy. First edition of this fantastic activity book intended to provide children with a box of crayons or watercolours large simple drawings many happy hours of colouring and enjoyment. These were intended to be hung as a twelve-foot frieze on the wall of the play room bedroom or classroom. Sampson was also known for her 1933 Aesop silhouette book as well as her charming Mother Goose Posters in 1925. No copies located in Worldcat. The Harter Publishing Co., Educational Publishers, paperback
1943rif. 47202Dallas TX: Harben-Spotts Co. Inc. 1943. 8vo. 160 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous illustrations. Green cloth black lettering slight scuffing front cover w/ d.j. minor toning to spine slight dustsoiling VG/VG- copy. First edition of this informative biography of the famed Circus Queen who with her husband formed the Bailey Family Troupe served as a spy for Generals John Bell Hood and Jubal Early during the Civil War and later organized the Bailey Circus which played all over Texas. Scarce in dustjacket. Harben-Spotts Co., Inc., hardcover
2009rif. 40957Cologne: Taschen 2009. Folio. 383 1 pp. Over 450 colour and blk & wht illusts. photos. Red illust. boards slght bmpng hd & ft of spine w/ d.j. VG/F. First B&N edition of this lavish history of the American circus creating at the end of the 19th century the largest show-biz the world had ever seen. Included are iconic images from such famed photographers as Whitman Glasier Edward Kelty Mathew Brady Cornell Capa Wloker Evans Weegee Lisette Model Stanley Kubrick and more. Taschen, hardcover
rif. E-2-77483847362616Very Good. Flawless disc alternative cover art. unknown
1930rif. 127955N.p. 1930s. Very Good. Vintage black-and-white snapshot photographs of women in costume dressed as clowns and as gangsters and gun molls. Produced by roving photographers who traveled with the caravan of performers and animals and some by local scene photographers. These images show intimate moments between friends: 2 show young women one name Violet who poses in clown costumes with Ethel and with Mildred in what appears to be an alley; the remaining 4 have printed ornate borders and show stoic flapper-dressed young women 2 show massive advertising billboards in the background and 1 of those features another woman in drag as a male gangster. Both sets feature an identifiable or recognizable central figure Violet and the stoic flapper with the pigtail bang and together the two similar bring to the life the era in format and its contemporary counterculture in subject. All approx 2.5 x 3.5 inches single-weight black-and-white with small borders blank versos except for the 4 with boards 300 stamped on versos: this could indicate the photos are from a set the "300" set given to patrons as souvenirs at the shows. Very Good overall each with partial evidence of removal from a scrapbook or album light rubbing and toning creases 2 with ink notations in the borders all with brief pencil notations also on the versos. N.p. hardcover
1875rif. 36453n.p. 1875. Carte de Visite format 2-1/2" x 4" albumen print on card mount: Photographic portrait of John McGuire a dwarf dressed in the usual fancy suit and top hat popular with dwarf performers at the time. No printed caption or imprint appears. A pencil notation beneath the photo "Coll. Mcguire." Minor dust. Very Good. Col. John McGuire a dwarf perfomer has been the subject of a only handful of carte-de-visites from what our research showed. There is one example very similar to ours held in the Ronald G. Becker Collection of Charles Eisenmann Photographs at Syracuse University and dated about 1875. unknown
rif. 43661989like new. unknown
rif. 35896901-nnew. unknown
1988rif. 044579Big Apple Circus 1988. poster. Good. Big Apple Circus Poster 1988 35x 23". Good condition with pin holes in all four corners light soiling and creases along top edge. Shipped rolled. White reverse is blank with light soiling. Printed on white poster paper with semi-gloss ink. Not an original work of art but a poster printed in 1988. Also says: "The Children's Museum Presents Direct from Lincoln Center In The Trump Tent! The Children's Museum Boston The Not-For-Profit Arts Organization that Puts a Little Circus into a lot of Lives May 20-June 12 Pier 3 Northern Ave Tickets available. Big Apple Circus unknown
rif. 67201Vogue 1973 Double album avec un livret de 16 pages en Bande Dessinee signature autographe du compositeur Claude-Michel Schonberg Nb-0296 unknown
rif. 25679Impr. Chabrillac In-4 8pp. In-4 illustr. couverture couleur de Ruddy traces de pliage Bwx-10 unknown
rif. ria9781032176895_inpPaperback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; This book chronicles how contract cases from the construction industry have influenced solidified refined and particularized U.S. contract law. paperback
rif. a79305Paris 1960-1966 Club du Cirque. 26 consecutive separate issues of this circus magazine. In French. 4to. about 32pp. per issue monochrome photo illustrations original wraps. VG plus. Excellent condition. no owner marks. . paperback
rif. 35896901like new. unknown
rif. 69-3680Paris France: Theatre de la Menagerie du Cirque D'Hiver. 60 x 40 cm. Offset Color Lithograph. Very Good. Paris, France: Theatre de la Menagerie du Cirque D'Hiver unknown
rif. 63-7265New York: Le Cirque 1986. 8vo. Illustrated Plastic Laminated Folded Cover with Folded Paper Menu within 8 pp. Very Good. Illustrated. En Francais & English.Provenance: Michelin Archives. Collection Guy Legay. Clermont-Ferrand France. New York: Le Cirque, 1986. unknown
rif. 63-1892Paris: Festival D'Automne 1974. 3 Black & White Photographs 9.5" x 7" also one duplicate with small tear oblong. Very Good. Notes on verso in French. From the Alma Law Collection. Paris: Festival D'Automne, 1974. unknown
1976rif. 16586JNew York: Sagarin Press 1976. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by Karl Wallenda on the front free endpaper: "To Gene Anonycuk and Irene from Karl Wallenda". Enclosed is a letter from the recipient's son attesting to the authenticity of Wallenda's signature. Very good in a worn and used internally repaired dust jacket. Hardcover. A biography of the great Karl Wallenda one of the most famous circus performers of all time who was killed in a high-wire accident a few years after the publication of this book. Sagarin Press hardcover
2001rif. 16588JNew York: Thomas Dunne Books 2001. First American Edition. Near fine in a near dust jacket. Hardcover.". a dark and whimsical tale about a group of circus performers who disillusioned with their lives as traveling entertainers are seduced by the idea of settling down and living like ordinary people. Thomas Dunne Books hardcover
2015rif. 112291Drago. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - Text in English and Italian. -- with a bonus offer-- . 2015. 8888493964 . Drago hardcover
2014rif. 108246Drago. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - Text in English and Italian with small portions exclusively in English. -- with a bonus offer--; DCG Trilogy . 2014. 8888493956 . Drago hardcover
1931rif. A46472New York NY: Sells-Floto Circus. Good. Periodical. This is a magazine sized periodical / souvenir program for the 1931 season. The Magazine is in Good only condition with illustrated covers and a stapled spine. The program was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends corners and edges of the covers have wear rubbing creasing and wrinkling and the majority of the spine has tearing. The text pages are generally clean but do have tears and wrinkles and there are a couple of small bits clipped out. This program features several pages of black and white photos of the star of the show - Tom Mix. Later pages include photos of other acts including the clowns several animal acts and even a posed photo showing Jack Dempsey and Tom Mix after a bout "four fast rounds". "The circus had four elephant births three born to "Alice" and one to "Mama Mary". The sire of all four was "Snyder". None survived longer than five months. By 1929 the Sells Floto Circus was part of the American Circus Corporation which consisted of Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus the John Robinson Circus the Sparks Circus and the Al G. Barnes Circus. John Nicholas Ringling then bought American Circus Corporation for $1.7-million creating a monopoly of traveling circus in America." from Wikipedia; B&W Illustrations; Unpaginated pages; Pictured 8/22/23 put with entertainment / music in ephemera . 1931. Sells-Floto Circus unknown
