Chicago: The John C. Winston and Co, 1934 thus, blue boards with full plate and blindstamped border, gilt titles on spine, illustrated endpapers, coloured frontis and illustrations in text, 6 x 8.75"; 282 pp. Juvenile hardback. Adventures of two small girls and a boy who has escaped from the circus.....
New York: McLoughlin Bros. Circus Series, No. 78 (1890); Arab rider on white horse on front, dancing girl and buffalo on back; stapled, 7.3 x 9.8"; np. Toploader large softcover. Coloured illustrations on every page, full page and in text, circus animals, Algerian dancing girls and sword combat, camel races.....
New York: McLoughlin 1883, first edition and first or early hardcover printing (the 3 sections were published in softcover simultaneously); red, blue and yellow boards with six vignettes, "Men, Monkeys, and Dogs" on bottom board, red edges all around, heavy paper, red blue and gilt outlined letters on title page.....
Viking, 1981, 1st printing; 4to, np. Picture Book hardback. Full-portraits of zoo animals with captions by various of the Baskin family.
Crowell, 1967; 9.2 x 11.7, np. Picture Book hardback. Bright pastel illustrations by the Swiss artist.
Crowell, 1967, 1st printing; 9x12; np. Picture Book hardback. Bright pastel illustrations by the Swiss artist.
London: Methuen & Co. 1963/1962, 1st printing UK; green boards with clown face; 16 x 16.5 cm; np. Small hardback. A simple tour of the circus.
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1959, 1st printing; green cloth boards with green patterned endpapers, in green and pink jacket with clown in big tent and children; 8vo; 218 pp. Juvenile hardback. Children sent to spend the summer with their aunt are delighted to find that she is a dog trainer.....
Paris: Marcus, 15 Rue Faraday, 1944, 1st; l'imprimerie moderne de Nantes, Beuchet et Vanden Brugge; red paper boards with Toni and his crown encircled with stars, endpapers with large stars on white (constructed so title page is fep); 9.5 x 10"; np. Tiny Au Nain Bleu Rue St.Honoré toystore sticker.....
New York: Newman Advertising Services, 1946, COIN BOOKS Inc, N. Y. Distributors; card covers and 4 heavier card pages with coin holders joined by red metal rings; illustrated top covers with a clown showing a boy and girl this book, inside covers with text printed for the business distributing the.....
New York: Coward, McCann, Geoghegan (1973); reinforced pictorial binding with painting of Isaac in his boat and the white porpoise; in jacket identical to boards, 8vo; 128 pp. Juvenile hardback ex-lib. Isaac befriends Snow, but when others think she needs to be captured for her own safety, he does not.....
Doubleday, early, c.1950. Juvenile hardback. Robin wants to become a trapeze artist like his famous parents, and is helped by Mrs. Fatima, a retired snake charmer. Colourful circus characters.
New York: Doubleday and Company, 1950, 1st printing or early printing, no later books mentioned; 8vo; 240 pp. Juvenile hardback. Robin wants to become a trapeze artist like his famous parents, and is helped by Mrs. Fatima, a retired snake charmer. Colourful circus characters.
London: Drury House, Golden Pleasure Books, 1965/1965; linen spine, heavy card boards with elephant and magician's hand; each page has an animal in a natural environment, w. a full page cutout overlay allowing the animal to be seen in the magician's environment (usually the circus); (overlay hinges at the page.....
Macmillan, 1937/1932, 6th. 239 pp. Juvenile hardback. Patty Hawkes, "the Giant's Daughter" in a travelling freak show, was surrounded by a close-knit stage family. Then a newcomer gave her a chance at a "normal life." Her sensitivity and courage make this an unusual and masterful coming of age novel.
Chicago: Willcox & Follett, 1945, manufactured by L. El Pitner; tent shaped panorama with 10 folded card panels colour illustrated on both sides; tan cloth taped spine as issued 10 x approx. 6.25", Toploader large softcover, novelty panorama, Bright pictures crowded with happy circus go-ers, animals, and special acts.
NY: Roy, 1959, 1st printing US; 208 pp. Juvenile hardback. Ranjit and his trained chimp perform in a small travelling circus in England. Lively crosshatched drawings and an interesting picture of the world of the small circus.
Shepperton,, Middlesex: Ian Allan Ltd, Terminal House.; (September 1950) book list through 1957, not 1959; card cover with circus animals and folk and happy Sammy, Sammy series book list on back; full colour pictures including center spread, and two colour illustrations in text; 29 pp. Toploader small softcover story. "Sammy.....
New York: Delacorte, 1967/1965, 1st printing Am. 4 coloured and 3 woodblock plates, as well as story heads and tails; 20.5x25.7cm; 56 pp. PIcture Book Hardback. Amusing circus pictures in crayon by a Swiss artist and illustrator, in his first American book for children.
New York: Julian Messner, 1962/1951, 5th printing; illustrated blue reinforced pictorial boards; 8vo; 181 pp incl. index. Juvenile hardback. Illustrated with photographs and researched with primary sources and interviews.
Morrow, 1991, 1st printing; 74 pp. Juvenile hardback. The circus comes to town, and Eddie's friend Boodles would like to be a clown. Haywood's last book.
Morrow, 1991, 1st printing; 74 pp. Juvenile hardback. The circus comes to town, and Eddie's friend Boodles would like to be a clown. Haywood's last book.
Katowice: Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza, (1982); thin card boards with huge orange elephant looming out at the viewer and the back he is seen from the rear; oblong 9 x 8"; 24 pp. Polish language softcover. A collaboration between a filmmaker Illig, and an award winning artist. The zookeeper tends some.....
New York: Windmill Books, 1971, 1st printing; blue boards with full sized stamped picture of animals looking at the people in the cages, in jacket with coloured picture identical to boards, 8.75x11.25; np. Picture Book hardback. "Outside the bars the beasts reflect/On the almost animal intellect."
New York, Toronto: Longmans Green & Co., Alliance Book Corporation, Copyright 1938 by Atrium Verlag, Basel; Printed in Holland (J. H. de Bussy, Amsterdam), 1st, US/CA nap; translated from the German by Cyrus Brooks; paper boards with full painting of Till walking along in a red suit with a bell.....