This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/10/2018
Collection of Sideshow Chapbooks. Including Leonard Trask, The Wonderful Invalid, 34pp, Portland: David Tucker, 1857; Museum of Foreign Animals or History of Beasts, 16pp, New Haven, S. Babcock, ca. 1840s; Biographical Sketches of Count and Countess Philippe Nicol, The King and Queen of all Midgets, Montreal, ca. 1920, 32pp; two copies of Waino and Plutano, Wild Men of Borneo, ca. 1870’s, 16pp, each with different color wraps; Little Blue Book 1279, Side-Show Tricks Explained, by Carrington, ca. 1920s, 32pp, Pigmies, Wichita, 1932, 12pp., a mentholatum advertising booklet equating pigmies with germs; Sideshow Tricks Exposed, J. H. Trudell, 1915, 8pp; Shaw’s Book of Acts for Carnival, Sideshow, Museum and Circus, ca. 1900, 16pp.; and others. Generally good or better condition.