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[BOOKS – CIRCUS] Large Group of Circus-Themed Books. Approximately 50 items. V.p. Includes: American Sideshow, by Marc Hartzman (Jeremy P. Tarcher, 2005); — Beasts and Circuses, by Sir Garrard Tyrwhitt-Drake (Arrowsmith, 1936); — Big Top Boss: John Ringling North and the Circus, by David Lewis Hammarstrom (University of Illinois Press, 1992); — Buffalo Bill’s British Wild West, by Alan Gallop (The History Press, 2009); — The Circus Moves by Rail, by Tom Parkinson and Charles Philip Fox (Carstens, 1993); — Coney Island, by Harvey Stein (W. W. Norton, 1998); — Confessions of a Showman, by Gerry Cottle with Helen Batten (Vision, 2006); — Fairground Strollers and Showfolk, by Frances Brown (Ronda Books, 2001); — International Fairs, by Nigel Heard (Terence Dalton, 1973); — Jumbo: Marvel, Myth, and Mascot, by Andrew McClellan (Tufts, 2014); — Memoirs of a Sword-Swallower, by Dan Mannix (Hamish Hamilton, 1951); — The Outdoor Amusement Industry, by William F. Mangels (Vantage Press, 1952); — A Pictorial History of the American Carnival, by Joe McKennon (Carnival Publishers, 1977); and others. The bulk in publisher’s bindings, as issued. Many illustrated. Several with Dawes bookplates. 8vos and 4tos. Good or better condition.