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Fellini, Federico. I Clowns. A cura di Renzo Renzi. Foto a colori di Franco Pinna. Bologna: Capelli, 1970. Limited first edition, number 124 of 150 copies, with a signed and numbered color lithograph of a clown on wove paper by Fellini inserted in a folder at the start of the volume, as issued. Photographs by Pinna in color and black and white, and other illustrations. 4to. Publisher’s beige cloth, original glossy color dust-jacket. Small tape repair tear to jacket, bookplate, otherwise fine. Also with a press booklet (1970) issued by RAI TV, which produced the film. This book accompanied the release of Fellini’s 1970 “fictional documentary” of the same title, and reproduces the film’s script at the back of the volume. The work is filled with essays on clowns in art and culture from the golden age of the circus to Fellini’s day, and features 64 pages of color photographs, halftone reproductions of historic circus photographs, posters, and ephemera, and other illustrations.