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1709réf. 6585London: Henry Hills 1709. Piracy of the First Edition printed in the same year. 16 pp. Catalogue of Hill's Poems on p. 16. 1 vols. 8vo. Disbound. Fine. Piracy of the First Edition printed in the same year. 16 pp. Catalogue of Hill's Poems on p. 16. 1 vols. 8vo. Foxon B527.9 [Henry Hills] unknown books
1709réf. 6585London: Henry Hills 1709. Piracy of the First Edition printed in the same year. 16 pp. Catalogue of Hill's Poems on p. 16. 1 vols. 8vo. Disbound. Fine. Piracy of the First Edition printed in the same year. 16 pp. Catalogue of Hill's Poems on p. 16. 1 vols. 8vo. Foxon B527.9 [Henry Hills] unknown
réf. 5805CIRCUS. ALS. 3pg. 8 x 11. December 18 1940. Lexington Kentucky. An autograph letter signed W. Shelby Jaxon on The Zephyrs stationery. Jaxon wrote to W.H. Warner the technical director of Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows Inc. The letter states in full: Hello Bill I just received your letter. Sorry you are having a tough time getting the Boys up to practice. I also am having trouble finding some way to practice the Bars. The colleges are Basket Ball Crazy now and I can't practice nights and I have no one to practice in the daytime with me. I just worked a one nighter. I used Big Blakeman as my partner. We were a little slow and stalled a bit but we went over 100% and got encores. So we didn't feel so bad. The warehouses have closed until Jan 2nd and the Barrel Hog Factory has moved out of town. So I won't get any work around here. If I had a Bar Act in shape ready to go I could go to work tomorrow night for 4 straight weeks in clubs and then get a unit show. Blakeman wants to quit his job and go with me. But he needs two months straight practice before he would be presentable. He doesn't realize that I had a top and speedy act when I worked these spots before and that is what they expect me to give them now and I can't do it with him the shape he is in. So I am just letting it go. I have the triple ground bars all set and painted up and ready to go. They really look fine on a stage. I painted the bar tiles gold and shined the uprights and they are the cleanest neat appear stage bars I have ever seen when set on a stage with lights on them. I got a letter from a fellow in Chicago who just finished building a rigging that folds and has two bars. He wants me to work with him and furnish the car and split fifty-fifty. But he says the rigging folds down instead of together. I am not taking any chances as I have no way he has a practical rigging. He wants me to come to Chicago and practice a week and go to work but that costs money when you consider you also have to buy wardrobe and get photos made. So I turned it down not knowing him either. Jake Crumley told him about me. I have a job coming up in four or five weeks which will last about 5 to 7 weeks at pretty fair money. I have got to go out of town to see about it next week. It is for aerialist Harold Voise on serial bars. Did you ever hear from Walter Guice I am rebuilding my car's generator and fooling around with my car in general as I just had a fellow pay me $25.00 he has owned me for over two years that wasn't hard to take. Bill I think I had better stick around and try to pick up something around here until February and then I can go to work for Voise for a few weeks and from there it will be easy going. Let me hear from you and don't worry too much about the bar practice or the folding rigging take it easy. I'll probably be able to send you some money to start on the folding rigging when I go to work for Voise. As Ever W. Shelby Jaxon. unknown
réf. 5805CIRCUS. ALS. 3pg. 8 x 11. December 18 1940. Lexington Kentucky. An autograph letter signed W. Shelby Jaxon on The Zephyrs stationery. Jaxon wrote to W.H. Warner the technical director of Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows Inc. The letter states in full: Hello Bill I just received your letter. Sorry you are having a tough time getting the Boys up to practice. I also am having trouble finding some way to practice the Bars. The colleges are Basket Ball Crazy now and I can't practice nights and I have no one to practice in the daytime with me. I just worked a one nighter. I used Big Blakeman as my partner. We were a little slow and stalled a bit but we went over 100% and got encores. So we didn't feel so bad. The warehouses have closed until Jan 2nd and the Barrel Hog Factory has moved out of town. So I won't get any work around here. If I had a Bar Act in shape ready to go I could go to work tomorrow night for 4 straight weeks in clubs and then get a unit show. Blakeman wants to quit his job and go with me. But he needs two months straight practice before he would be presentable. He doesn't realize that I had a top and speedy act when I worked these spots before and that is what they expect me to give them now and I can't do it with him the shape he is in. So I am just letting it go. I have the triple ground bars all set and painted up and ready to go. They really look fine on a stage. I painted the bar tiles gold and shined the uprights and they are the cleanest neat appear stage bars I have ever seen when set on a stage with lights on them. I got a letter from a fellow in Chicago who just finished building a rigging that folds and has two bars. He wants me to work with him and furnish the car and split fifty-fifty. But he says the rigging folds down instead of together. I am not taking any chances as I have no way he has a practical rigging. He wants me to come to Chicago and practice a week and go to work but that costs money when you consider you also have to buy wardrobe and get photos made. So I turned it down not knowing him either. Jake Crumley told him about me. I have a job coming up in four or five weeks which will last about 5 to 7 weeks at pretty fair money. I have got to go out of town to see about it next week. It is for aerialist Harold Voise on serial bars. Did you ever hear from Walter Guice I am rebuilding my car's generator and fooling around with my car in general as I just had a fellow pay me $25.00 he has owned me for over two years that wasn't hard to take. Bill I think I had better stick around and try to pick up something around here until February and then I can go to work for Voise for a few weeks and from there it will be easy going. Let me hear from you and don't worry too much about the bar practice or the folding rigging take it easy. I'll probably be able to send you some money to start on the folding rigging when I go to work for Voise. As Ever W. Shelby Jaxon. unknown books
1863réf. BB055Original carte-de-visite photographs of Charles Sherwood Stratton better known by his stage name "General Tom Thumb" a dwarf who achieved great fame as a performer under circus pioneer P. T. Barnum here photographed with his wife Lavinia Warren AUTOGRAPHED in Stratton's handwriting on verso "Genl Tom Thumb & Mrs Tom Thumb - 1863 August". The couple were married in February 1863 for which it is said President Lincoln hosted them with a reception at the White House. The 2nd picture of the Strattons in their wedding costumes also a picture of their best man and bridesmaid Commodore Nutt and Minnie Warren Lavinia's sister and the wedding party together all in especially fine condition with dark brown hues each having facsimile autographs on the verso by their subjects. In addition an 1865 photograph of "Gen. Tom Thumb Wife and Child" verso blank. Altogether 5 carte-de-visite original mounted photographs the first with imprint verso backboard of Charles D Fredericks & Co 587 Broadway New York then three "from photographic Negative by Matthew Brady" imprinted by E & H T Anthony 501 Broadway the last by J Hall junction York and Fulton Sts Brooklyn.Born in Bridgeport 1838 to parents who were of medium height Charles was a relatively large baby weighing 9 pounds 8 ounces 4.3 kg at birth. He developed and grew normally for the first six months of his life at which point he was 25 inches 64 cm tall and weighed 15 pounds 6.8 kg. Then he suddenly stopped growing. By late 1842 4 years old Stratton had grown only one inch additional though his body was proportionate and functional. The showman Phineas T. Barnum heard about Stratton and after making arrangements with his parents taught the boy how to sing dance mime and impersonate famous people. He toured America and Europe in 1845 during which time his performances marked a turning point in the history of freak show entertainment. Prior to Stratton's debut the presentation of "human curiosities" for the purpose of entertainment was deemed dishonorable and seen as an unpleasing carnival attraction. However after viewers were introduced to Stratton and performances he was able to change the perception people held toward freak shows. Stratton's lively entertainments made these types of carnival shows one of the most favored forms of theatre in the United States.His marriage to Lavinia Warren also a little person became front-page news. The wedding took place at Grace Episcopal Church and the wedding reception was held at New York City's Metropolitan Hotel. The couple stood atop a grand piano at the reception to greet some 10000 guests. Rare to find a vintage picture of the couple dated and inscribed so early in their marriage and nice companion images inscriptions on three other pictures are in facsimile handwriting.TOGETHER WITH:BLEEKER Sylvester: Gen Tom Thumb's Three Yers' Tour Around the World accompanied by His Wife – Lavinia Warren Stratton Commodore Nutt Miss Minnie Warren and Party.New York: S. Booth 1872. Woodcut illustrations.8vo. 144 pp.; original printed pictorial orange wrappers overlayed with decorative cloth including spine.
1863réf. BB055Original carte-de-visite photographs of Charles Sherwood Stratton better known by his stage name "General Tom Thumb" a dwarf who achieved great fame as a performer under circus pioneer P. T. Barnum here photographed with his wife Lavinia Warren AUTOGRAPHED in Stratton's handwriting on verso "Genl Tom Thumb & Mrs Tom Thumb - 1863 August". The couple were married in February 1863 for which it is said President Lincoln hosted them with a reception at the White House. The 2nd picture of the Strattons in their wedding costumes also a picture of their best man and bridesmaid Commodore Nutt and Minnie Warren Lavinia's sister and the wedding party together all in especially fine condition with dark brown hues each having facsimile autographs on the verso by their subjects. In addition an 1865 photograph of "Gen. Tom Thumb Wife and Child" verso blank. Altogether 5 carte-de-visite original mounted photographs the first with imprint verso backboard of Charles D Fredericks & Co 587 Broadway New York then three "from photographic Negative by Matthew Brady" imprinted by E & H T Anthony 501 Broadway the last by J Hall junction York and Fulton Sts Brooklyn.Born in Bridgeport 1838 to parents who were of medium height Charles was a relatively large baby weighing 9 pounds 8 ounces 4.3 kg at birth. He developed and grew normally for the first six months of his life at which point he was 25 inches 64 cm tall and weighed 15 pounds 6.8 kg. Then he suddenly stopped growing. By late 1842 4 years old Stratton had grown only one inch additional though his body was proportionate and functional. The showman Phineas T. Barnum heard about Stratton and after making arrangements with his parents taught the boy how to sing dance mime and impersonate famous people. He toured America and Europe in 1845 during which time his performances marked a turning point in the history of freak show entertainment. Prior to Stratton's debut the presentation of "human curiosities" for the purpose of entertainment was deemed dishonorable and seen as an unpleasing carnival attraction. However after viewers were introduced to Stratton and performances he was able to change the perception people held toward freak shows. Stratton's lively entertainments made these types of carnival shows one of the most favored forms of theatre in the United States.His marriage to Lavinia Warren also a little person became front-page news. The wedding took place at Grace Episcopal Church and the wedding reception was held at New York City's Metropolitan Hotel. The couple stood atop a grand piano at the reception to greet some 10000 guests. Rare to find a vintage picture of the couple dated and inscribed so early in their marriage and nice companion images inscriptions on three other pictures are in facsimile handwriting.TOGETHER WITH:BLEEKER Sylvester: Gen Tom Thumb's Three Yers' Tour Around the World accompanied by His Wife – Lavinia Warren Stratton Commodore Nutt Miss Minnie Warren and Party.New York: S. Booth 1872. Woodcut illustrations.8vo. 144 pp.; original printed pictorial orange wrappers overlayed with decorative cloth including spine. books
réf. 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
1951réf. E8576New York: American Broadcasting Company 1951. First edition. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Quarto sized volume in spiral bound illustrated softcovers. 64pp. Illustrated throughout with vintage photographs and red and black drawings. Promotional book issued by the ABC television network to promote "Super Circus" which aired from 1949 through 1956 on Sunday afternoons. Claude Kirshner was the ringmaster and leggy Miss Mary Hartline his assistant on this program that offered all manner of circus acts. A bright near fine example small corner crease front cover. Rather scarce. American Broadcasting Company paperback
réf. 4c1719Printed in Germany um 1955. 18 Aufstellfiguren nebst Kulisse 58 cm x 1750 cm Kulisse mit Abriß u. berieben. unknown
1932réf. 21628New York: Macmillan Company 1932. First edition. Illustrated. 1 vols. 8vo. Original tan illustrated cloth original illustrated dust jacket. Some rubbing and fraying of extremities of cloth short tears along edges of jacket inner hinges separated library stamps and card else a very good copy. First edition. Illustrated. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed on the front free endpaper "For the members of the Boys Club of New York in the fond hope they may enjoy reading this partial record of my happy past. 'Uncle ' Bob Sherwood Last of Barnum's Clowns. New York City 1934". Macmillan Company unknown books
1932réf. 21628New York: Macmillan Company 1932. First edition. Illustrated. 1 vols. 8vo. Original tan illustrated cloth original illustrated dust jacket. Some rubbing and fraying of extremities of cloth short tears along edges of jacket inner hinges separated library stamps and card else a very good copy. First edition. Illustrated. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed on the front free endpaper "For the members of the Boys Club of New York in the fond hope they may enjoy reading this partial record of my happy past. 'Uncle ' Bob Sherwood Last of Barnum's Clowns. New York City 1934". Macmillan Company unknown
grand in-8 oblong, n.p., entièrement illustré en couleurs, relié cartonnage illustré plastifié. EO. Quelques défauts au cartonnage sinon bel exemplaire. [GD8/5]
réf. 18957Paris, imp. Picard, 1928, 1 pliée. affiche de 122 x 159 cm, texte en bleu sur fond jaune et blanc, petite affiche de 53 cm x 22 cm contrecollé sur le bas: "Cirque de Paris Valence 2 jours seulement", quelques petites déchirures avec un manque de 2 cm x 5 cm sans perte de texte ;
1519réf. 32644Revue Rock & Folk n° 51 de avril 1971. In-4 agrafé de 106 pages, au format 27 x 21,5 cm. Couvertures photographiques avec Mick Jagger. Couvertures avec d'infimes frottis aux coins. Intérieur frais. Mensuel musical français consacré à la musique rock et pop, fondé en 1966 par Robert Baudelet, Jean Tronchot, Philippe Adler, Jean-Pierre Leloir et Philippe Koechlin. La revue connut la participation de nombreux photographes dont : Jean-Pierre Leloir, Claude Gassian, Pierre Terrasson, Gaëlle Ghesquière, Bruno Ducourant,Patrice Guino, Jean-Louis Rancurel, Dominique Tarlé, Bertrand Alary et Saddri Derradji. Nombreux articles sur le Rock, le blues, la soul, la pop dont : Country Joe, José Feliciano, Grand Magic Circus, Joe Cocker, Neil Young, James Brown, John Mayall, Miles Davis, etc. Nombreuses chroniques avec de très nombreuses photographies en noir et blanc. Rare édition originale, en très bel état de fraicheur.
réf. 22182Toulouse Chabrillac Imprimeurs, sans date in 8 (22x16) 1 fascicule broché, couverture illustrée en couleurs, non paginé (8 pages), avec des photographies reproduites tirées en bleu. Le festival du Cirque, présenté par les 3 Frères Amar, avec les plus grandes attractions internationales (24). Superbe exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
1973réf. 20186Belgique / Editions Hemma 1973. In-8 cartonnage éditeur. Couverture, textes et illustrations sur le thème du Cirque par Luce-Andrée Lagarde. Très joli livre à système " Pop-Up " avec tableaux en trois dimensions, tous en état parfait de fonctionnement. Superbe état général. Edition originale.
2012réf. 20550Editions Istra 1952. In-8 cartonnage éditeur de 114 pages au format 15,5 x 22,5 cm. Couverture illustrée. Dos pincé en toile marron foncée. Plats et intérieur frais. A noter que la page de garde et les 10 premières pages sont perforées verticalement par la mention " Spécimen ". Livre de lecture courante pour le cours élémentaire, narrant une aventure de 2 jeunes enfants dans un Cirque. Nombreuses et superbes illustrations en deux couleurs par Pierrette Fangeaux. Tirage hors commerce. A noter que l'auteur, directeur d'école, écrivit de nombreux livres de Science-Fiction. Rare édition originale en superbe état général.
1983réf. 1482Editions Espir-Al 1983. In-8 broché de 161 pages au format 15 x 20,5 cm. Couverture illustrée. Dos carré. Plats et intérieur parfaits. Souvenirs de l'auteur sur le Cirque, le Jazz, Léo Ferré, Georges Brassens, etc. Nombreuses photos hors texte ( Claude Luter, Sidney Bechet, Rolph Zavatta, Pick et Cratt, Victor Fratellini, Joséphine Baker, Léo Ferré, Georges Brassens etc ). Recueil de dédicaces inédites manuscrites en fac-similés de Georges Brassens, Claude Luter, Raymond Devos, Claude François, Dalida, etc. Etat de neuf. Edition originale ornée d'une magnifique dédicace pleine page, datée et signé, de René de Lancio à Génia et André Randel. Ces deux derniers furent les fondateurs de la fameuse troupe d'acrobates, nommée " Les Randels ou les Genias ", constitué en 1956, autour du trampoline, par André Randel, Roger Maslard et Genia, épouse d’André.
1952réf. 20249Editions de Paris / Collection " Les Troubadours du Siècle " 1952. In-12 broché de 206 pages au format 12 x 18,5 cm . Superbes couvertures illustrées par l'auteur. Dos bien carré. Plats et intérieur frais. Frontispice et très nombreux dessins inédits en noir in-texte de Maurice Feaudièrre, dit Serge. Edition originale, en superbe état de fraicheur. Précieux exemplaire accompagné d'une longue et magnifique lettre autographe, signée, avec petit dessin original, destinée à un collaborateur du Crapouillot, en remerciement d'un article sur " Serge ". La lettre est pliée.
2007réf. 26860Paris, Albin Michel éditeur / Collection " Vie d'Aventures et de Chasse du Dompteur Edmond Pezon " n° 6, sans date ( 1908-1910 ). Fascicule in-8 agrafé de 32 pages au format 15,5 x 24,5 cm. Superbe couverture illustrée certainement, au vu de la signature, par Gino Starace. Plats avec minuscules rousseurs, infimes plis aux coins et tout petit manque au bas du 1er plat. Intérieur frais malgré de toutes petites rousseurs. Belles illustrations aussi de Gino Starace, in-texte, en noir. Ces fascicules, sont extrêmement fragiles et difficiles à trouver. D'après Sudoc, les textes des 25 fascicules que comporte cette série seraient dus à la plume de Oscar Méténier et Fabrice Delphi. Cette information reste à vérifier. Très rare édition originale, surtout dans un tel état de fraicheur.
réf. 12142Chez l'auteur / L'Encyclopédie du Cirque 1973. In-4 broché. Couverture photos. Etat superbe, proche du neuf. Excellent livre consacré au Acrobates, sauteurs, contorsionnistes, athlètes, hercules. Photos, dessins,documents en hors texte. Un des exemplaires n° de l'édition originale. Envoi autographe de l'auteur. Rare.
1978réf. 30284Association Les Amis de Pierre Mac Orlan - Musée des pays de Seine-et-Marne / Les Cahiers Pierre Mac Orlan, numéro 12 de 1999. In-8 broché de 48 pages au format 23 x 17 cm. Couverture illustrée à rabats. Dos carré. Plats et intérieur frais. Cahier préparé par Francis Lacassin, avec textes ( dont des inédits ) de Pierre Mac Orlan, consacrés au Cirque et accompagnés de dessins en noir de Gus Bofa. Superbe état général, proche du neuf. Edition originale.
réf. c6763Paris, Goupil et Cie Editeurs, Manzi, Joyant et Cie, Imprimeurs, sans date ( c. 1890) ; album in-4° oblong, couverture de papier fort souple beige illustré aux 2 plats d'une composition en blanc, rouge et noir par Oger; (16) pp. ( dont le titre illustré).Illustré de dessins monochromes mélés aux texte et de dessins en couleurs ou en noir à pleine page.Couverture un peu salie, papier jauni en bordure des feuilles( traces de doigt).
1952réf. 32248Librairie des Champs-Elysées 1939. In-8 broché de 206 pages au format 22 x 3 x 17,5 cm. Superbes couvertures illustrées par l'auteur. Dos bien carré. Plats et intérieur frais malgré une minuscule fente au mors supérieur du 1er plat. Exemplaire non coupé. 67 dessins en noir inédits, parfois double page, in-texte et hors texte par Maurice Féaudierre dit " Serge ". Un des 40 exemplaires du tirage de tête, numérotés sur Japon Orient ( n° VI ), mais malheureusement sans la suite des illustrations et les six planches en couleurs supplémentaires. Rare édition originale, surtout dans un tel état général de fraicheur. Proche du parfait.
1948réf. 27684Limoges, Imprimerie Rivet, 1948. Edité sous le Patronnage du Syndicat des Journalistes et Ecrivains. In-8 broché de 264 pages au format 25 x 16 cm. Belle couverture illustrée. Dos carré. Plats et intérieur frais. Préface par les Clowns Geo's et Plock. Sketchs par le Magicien Lambda. Illustrations et caricatures de A.Tardivon, hors texte. Photos en sépia hors texte. Tirage unique à 300 exemplaires numérotés sur papier mondial ( n° 253 ). Rare édition originale, surtout dans un tel état de fraicheur, proche du parfait.
