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1920rif. 157882N.p.: N.p. 1920. Vintage borderless photograph of Trixie the Wonder Dog a performing canine billed as "The Dog with the Mind of a Child." Annotations in manuscript pencil regarding cropping on the verso. The photograph shows Trixie posed on a carved wooden seat surrounded by props ostensibly used in her performances including a hoop several balls and a mock menu. 7.75 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1878rif. 63754New York: James Reilley Printer and Engraver 12 14 & 16 Spruce Street New York 1878. Poster for the circus printed on both sides 65 x 22 cm. on a 74 x 26 cm. sheet. "Programme No. 1." Text in various sizes and styles of type bordered by small vignettes of animals and circus acts. Title on verso: "UNCEASING ENTHUSIASM! / VanAmburgh & Co's / NEW GREAT GOLDEN / Menagerie Circus & Colosseum / Manager for 32 consecutive years. Mr. Hyatt Frost / WORLD-WIDE IN REPUTATION!. / THOUSANDS FLOCK TO SEE IT. followed by eleven illustrations of featured animals including the Two Horned Rhinoceros the White Yak of Tartary the African Ostrich etc. plus acrobats trapeze artists and other performers. In the margin left blank to allow for adding the location of the show this copy is stamped in bold letters "Fryeburg: Sept. 6." A few shallow chips to margins one short closed tear extending slightly into the illustration of the kangaroo else a boldly printed wonderfully illustrated copy. Isaac VanAmburgh 1811-1865 born in Fishkill New York is considered one of the originators of dramatic and daring trained wild animal acts incorporating them into his traveling menageries. Known as "The Lion King" for his bold performances he was touring England and the Continent by 1834 entering cages with lions tigers and other big cats and occasionally putting his arm or his head into their mouths much to the delight of Queen Victoria and other royalty. His long-time manager Hyatt Frost penned a biographical sketch of VanAmburgh in 1872 calling him "the original beast conqueror- a pioneer in entering their dens. no man has been able to effect as marvellous feats or exercise such power of control over the brute creation." Frost continued to use the VanAmburgh name and to manage the show after VanAmburgh's death. Frost was also a partner with P.T. Barnum in the Barnum Museum on Broadway in New York City until two fires one in 1865 and another in 1868 closed it down at a great loss to both men. Frost thereafter traveled the country and Canada with a wagon show and later a railroad show though competing with larger circuses became increasingly difficult. By 1884 he gave up the work and auctioned off the remaining parts of the VanAmburgh menagerie. see his obituary in the Amenia Times Sept. 7 1895. This copy with the Fryeburg Maine stamp was likely printed in 1878 when Frost was in his 32nd year as manager. We found a different poster for the VanAmburgh menagerie dated 1885 which notes that Frost was then in his 39th year as manager helping to date this copy. OCLC lists one copy at the Connecticut State Library which gives the date as 1880. James Reilley, Printer and Engraver, 12, 14, & 16 Spruce Street, New York unknown books
1878rif. 63754New York: James Reilley Printer and Engraver 12 14 & 16 Spruce Street New York 1878. Poster for the circus printed on both sides 65 x 22 cm. on a 74 x 26 cm. sheet. "Programme No. 1." Text in various sizes and styles of type bordered by small vignettes of animals and circus acts. Title on verso: "UNCEASING ENTHUSIASM! / VanAmburgh & Co's / NEW GREAT GOLDEN / Menagerie Circus & Colosseum / Manager for 32 consecutive years. Mr. Hyatt Frost / WORLD-WIDE IN REPUTATION!. / THOUSANDS FLOCK TO SEE IT. followed by eleven illustrations of featured animals including the Two Horned Rhinoceros the White Yak of Tartary the African Ostrich etc. plus acrobats trapeze artists and other performers. In the margin left blank to allow for adding the location of the show this copy is stamped in bold letters "Fryeburg: Sept. 6." A few shallow chips to margins one short closed tear extending slightly into the illustration of the kangaroo else a boldly printed wonderfully illustrated copy. Isaac VanAmburgh 1811-1865 born in Fishkill New York is considered one of the originators of dramatic and daring trained wild animal acts incorporating them into his traveling menageries. Known as "The Lion King" for his bold performances he was touring England and the Continent by 1834 entering cages with lions tigers and other big cats and occasionally putting his arm or his head into their mouths much to the delight of Queen Victoria and other royalty. His long-time manager Hyatt Frost penned a biographical sketch of VanAmburgh in 1872 calling him "the original beast conqueror- a pioneer in entering their dens. no man has been able to effect as marvellous feats or exercise such power of control over the brute creation." Frost continued to use the VanAmburgh name and to manage the show after VanAmburgh's death. Frost was also a partner with P.T. Barnum in the Barnum Museum on Broadway in New York City until two fires one in 1865 and another in 1868 closed it down at a great loss to both men. Frost thereafter traveled the country and Canada with a wagon show and later a railroad show though competing with larger circuses became increasingly difficult. By 1884 he gave up the work and auctioned off the remaining parts of the VanAmburgh menagerie. see his obituary in the Amenia Times Sept. 7 1895. This copy with the Fryeburg Maine stamp was likely printed in 1878 when Frost was in his 32nd year as manager. We found a different poster for the VanAmburgh menagerie dated 1885 which notes that Frost was then in his 39th year as manager helping to date this copy. OCLC lists one copy at the Connecticut State Library which gives the date as 1880. James Reilley, Printer and Engraver, 12, 14, & 16 Spruce Street, New York unknown
1920rif. 157882N.p.: N.p. 1920. Vintage borderless photograph of Trixie the Wonder Dog a performing canine billed as "The Dog with the Mind of a Child." Annotations in manuscript pencil regarding cropping on the verso. The photograph shows Trixie posed on a carved wooden seat surrounded by props ostensibly used in her performances including a hoop several balls and a mock menu. 7.75 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1950rif. 67941Litho in U.S.A. C S P Co 1950. Three full-color lithographic advertising posters for the circus each 26 x 21 inches each with a 7 ¼ x 21 inch extender tag affixed at the bottom all advertising the Thursday September 6 1951 one chipped with the loss of part of the numeral "6" appearance in Long Beach California "Afternoon and Night" "New Air Ventilated Tent" "20 Degrees Cooler than Ever Before." One of the posters features a ferocious leaping Tiger above a ferocious leaping Lion one shows a Hippopotamus surfacing through vegetation in his river and the third shows "Francis Braun Greatest Juggler in the World" practicing his art. All are framed in multi-color borders. With the defect noted a very good lot uncommon with the advertising tags to the same appearance still attached. For the three posters Litho in U.S.A., C S P Co unknown
rif. 201003860Grenoble, Glénat, s.d. ; in-4, 400 env, cartonnage de l'éditeur. Du n° 27 aux n°31 ( volume débroché mais en trés bon état ).
1875rif. 57736Indianapolis IN: Indianapolis Journal Print 1875. First edition . Illustrated advertising broadsheet 28 1/2 x 10 5/8 inches employing a large number of sizes and styles of type including nice display types. The show traveled via its own fleet of 42 railroad cars "Mr. H. Barnum with years of experience catering to the tastes of lovers of amusement and artistic mechanism has put together a show with the sole view of eclipsing any and all heretofore attempts as to Splendor and Novelty." Howes' Great London Circus began its season in St. Louis Missouri according to the New York Clipper edition of March 11 1876; it was in New Orleans on November 20 1875. An ad in the Little Rock Arkansas Gazette gave a December 1 1875 date for its appearance in that city and noted that the circus would be appearing in "all the principal cities of Texas" beginning in that month. Henry Barnum ca. 1826-1902 was a showman and manager for several circuses during his career; in 1873 he purchased an interest in Howes' Great London Circus along with James E. Kelley. Lavish production low attendance and rail costs contributed to the demise of this circus at the end of the 1876 season being subsequently sold to Cooper & Bailey who continued to employ Barnum. Apparently not recorded on OCLC. Despite the defects a nice exhibition display broadsheet. Creased from folding some old staining to margins some short tears repaired with cello-tape two in margins one along a fold affecting several words printer's inking defect affecting the first two letters in the headline word "Howes". #6169. Indianapolis Journal Print unknown
1875rif. 57736Indianapolis IN: Indianapolis Journal Print 1875. First edition . Illustrated advertising broadsheet 28 1/2 x 10 5/8 inches employing a large number of sizes and styles of type including nice display types. The show traveled via its own fleet of 42 railroad cars "Mr. H. Barnum with years of experience catering to the tastes of lovers of amusement and artistic mechanism has put together a show with the sole view of eclipsing any and all heretofore attempts as to Splendor and Novelty." Howes' Great London Circus began its season in St. Louis Missouri according to the New York Clipper edition of March 11 1876; it was in New Orleans on November 20 1875. An ad in the Little Rock Arkansas Gazette gave a December 1 1875 date for its appearance in that city and noted that the circus would be appearing in "all the principal cities of Texas" beginning in that month. Henry Barnum ca. 1826-1902 was a showman and manager for several circuses during his career; in 1873 he purchased an interest in Howes' Great London Circus along with James E. Kelley. Lavish production low attendance and rail costs contributed to the demise of this circus at the end of the 1876 season being subsequently sold to Cooper & Bailey who continued to employ Barnum. Apparently not recorded on OCLC. Despite the defects a nice exhibition display broadsheet. Creased from folding some old staining to margins some short tears repaired with cello-tape two in margins one along a fold affecting several words printer's inking defect affecting the first two letters in the headline word "Howes". #6169. Indianapolis Journal Print unknown books
1889rif. 25869Cincinnati: Dillon 1889. Very good overall. An albumen photograph of a trapeze artist possibly H.Huston Ludlum a muscular young man wearing full length leg covering and shorts and short sleeve shirt holding a horizontal trapeze bar attached to a multitude of balloon cords in front of a painted backdrop. Dillon Cor 8th & Race Sts Cincinnati below photograph. Verso has a fully illustrated trade card for Dillon's Imperial Photo Gallery with an illustrated building advertising S.W. Dillon and a Garfield monument out front. "Elegant Portraits made from small pictures in india ink water colors crayon and pastels.' 4 1/4 x 6 1/4" Albuman photo on a printed cabinet card corners and edges rubbed one pinhole bottom center. Dillon unknown
1936rif. 7028Self Published 1936. First edition. 12mo 164pp. Photographs. Blue cloth boards stamped in gilt. Spine cocked endpapers toned else very good. . Self Published unknown
1870rif. 17145Colchester England: Oldham & Angle Photographers 1870. Photography. Very good overall. Carte de visite showing the Australian General Tom Thumb aka John David Armstrong who made his debut in Melbourne in 1870 and performed world wide. An uncommon image with Tom Thumb standing next to an ornately carved chair and dresser dressed in coat and tails and holding a sheaf of papers. The visit of the American Charles Stratton "Tom Thumb" and his wife Lavinia to Australia in the late 1860s as part of the PT Barnum round the world tour resulted in a huge fascination with little people worldwide. With the title below the photograph. Text on the verso: "this photograph is from the studio of G. A. Graham 8 Mersea Road. With photographers imprint: Oldham & Angle Photographers 11 Queen St. & 8 Mersea Rd. Colchester". Below the stamp: "The higher class photographs only taken by Sydney B. Angle 11 Queen St.". 2 1/2 x 4". Slt faded. Oldham & Angle Photographers 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
1931rif. 62105New York: Brewer Warren & Putnam Inc. 1931. 8vo. 183 1 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates. Dark blue publisher’s cloth lettering in black photo-illustrated endpapers minor scuffing edgewear w/ d.j. cover art photo of Betty Boyd Bell w/ circus elephant chipping & tear to head of spine corner still VG-/G- copy. First edition of this surprisingly scarce circus memoir ghost-written for 11-year-old Betty Boyd Bell 1920-1978 by Janet Mabie who at the time was a staff writer for Putnam’s and also preparing Amelia Earhart’s “Last Flight” from her in-flight notes. Bell’s father Floyd Bell was the publicity director for Ringling Bros. Circus and the young girl prepared scrapbooks took photos wrote down her short notes and even met President Calvin Coolidge during her Circus adventures. Betty herself would later dabble in radio spots after attending Choate and LaSalle Junior College working in public relations where she met and married Craig Barry in 1944 marketing analyst for General Electric. Scarce in original dustjacket. Brewer, Warren & Putnam, Inc., hardcover
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
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
1996rif. LFA-126733026Revue spécialisée dans les camions anciens : 68 pages, format 210 x 295 mm, illustrée, brochée couverture couleurs, bon état
rif. 11559Bordeaux, Archives municipales, 1976. In-8, broché.
rif. 20567Tablette recouverte de papier maroquiné rouge, décor de roulettes dorées sur les plats, ardoise façon vélin pour la marque de points d'un coté avec son crayon en étain, tableau imprimé des paiements du Boston au verso, Molette tournante pour le comptage des points (quelques usures sur les tranches). Dix-neuvième siècle, (100 x 155 mm). Bon état compte tenu de la fragilité de l'objet.
rif. 18690Bruxelles, Vroom, 1827. In-12 de 31 pages. Cartonnage marbré à la Bradel, couture lâche. Nombreux tampons de Radio France et ORTF.
rif. 4779Paris, Ludovic Baschet, [c. 1890] In-4° oblong, demi-percaline verte, cartonnage éditeur ivoire décoré au centre d'un masque de théâtre, titre argenté en plein. Titre, (76) ff. Bien complet de sa grande planche dépliante in fine Le Grand Escalier de l'Opéra. Nombreuses reproductions photographiques tirées en noir, bleu, vert, bistre in-texte (portraits de chanteurs et chanteuses ou d'acteurs et actrices de café-concert, scènes de théâtre, de danse, de spectacle de cirque).
1827rif. D6FA25RBPUPBAustria 1827. Oblong folio ca. 40 x 46 cm. With a large woodcut illustration ca. 27 x 38 cm. The text is set in a Gothic type. 1 l. Very attractive early 19th-century broadside with a beautiful large woodcut of a spectacular medieval show enlivened with fireworks. The text below announces the show of a gymnastics circus company under the direction of Bartholomäus Ramini dates unknown. According to the playbill the show consisted of four parts: an acrobatic performance by a four-year old; a horse dressage by "lustige Kaspar"; an acrobatic act with among others balancing and a human pyramid; and a play of "Otto der Stählerne im Kampfe mit dem rothen Feuerriesen und die Befreiung der Prinzessin Clotilde" translation: Otto the man of steel fighting with the red fire giant and the liberation of Princess Clothilde which included fireworks. This last part of the performance has also been mentioned as part of another circus show which was held at Prague in June 1827 under the direction of a citizen of Prague named "Beranek" Journal für Kunst Literatur und geselliges Leben. The present broadside most likely announces the same theatre or circus company now performing in a different location.The work has been folded in the past. Otherwise in very good condition.l Cf. Journal für Kunst Literatur und geselliges Leben nr. 74 21 June 1827 p. 592. hardcover
rif. 201215578Grenoble, Glénat / treize étrange, 2011 ; in-4, 48 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. EO tome 1 DL janvier 2011.
Paris, Editions Scala, 1991. in-4, cartonnage Bradel de l'éditeur, couverture illustrée en couleurs, 272 pp. Importante iconographie dans et hors-texte, en couleur et en noir. Bel exemplaire.
rif. 27046Paris, Editions Scala, 1991. in-4, cartonnage Bradel de l'éditeur, couverture illustrée en couleurs, 272 pp.
1927rif. BK0205N.p. 1927. Halftone-printed promotional card 5 ¾ × 9 ½ inches. Printed caption and Century Photographers credit within the image; blank verso. Some toning soiling and wear with small pinholes; good overall. An appealing promotional card reproducing Edward J. Kelty's 1927 group portrait of the Christy Brothers Circus sideshow company with its African American musicians and dancers prominently represented. The musicians stand across the foreground with their instruments flanked by large bass drums while women in stage costume occupy the row behind. Painted banners advertise the "Museum of Christy Living Curiosities" and "Big Double Annex." The caption identifies the sideshow's manager as H. Emgard. Kelty operated under the name Century Photographers in New York and traveled to circuses with a mobile studio and darkroom. He photographed performers and working crews developed the images on site and sold prints to circus personnel. The present card is a smaller printed reproduction of one of these group portraits. unknown books
