Circus, Sideshow & Oddities

Large Lot of Circus Programs and Periodicals. Bulk 1970s/80s. Enormous collection of approximately 300 programs, predominantly European, with some English and American, including Clyde Beatty & Cole Bros. Circus, the Moscow Circus, Festival Mundial del Circo, Cirkus Scott, Robert Brothers, Cirkus Royal, Cirque d’Hiver Paris, Bertolino Brothers, Cirque Jean Richard, Circus Hoffman, Circo Nacional de Mexico, Circus Hall of Fame, Royal Dunbar, Cirkus Brazil Jack, Zirkus Stey, Circo Medrano, Cirque Zavatta-Fils, Althoff, Willy Hagenbeck, Tower Blackpool, Billy Russell, Bertram Mills, Orfei (including a 1978 date-book), Chipperfield’s, Circus Nock, Robert Fossett’s Circus, KNIE, Cirkus Scala, Royal Hanneford, Cirque Monte Carlo, Krone, Bouglione, Sarrasani, Cirque de Noel. Illustrations in color and black and white. Interspersed with circus magazines such as King Pole, Call of the Calliope, Circus Spotlight, Circo, Le Cirque Dans L’Univers, Boys’ Life, Summer Week, Soviet Life, White Tops, Bandwagon, De Piste, and more. Some volumes with ephemera from the shows such as postcards, handbills, and clippings laid in. With scattered duplication. Some volumes with musty odor. A nice archive that should be seen.