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[BOOKS – MAGIC’S ALLIED ARTS] Enormous Library of Books Related to Performance and Magic’s Allied Arts. Approximately 230 publications. V.p., circa 1890s – 2000s. Subjects treated include puppetry, music hall, pre-cinema, circus, sideshow, pantomime, clowns, and theater history. Titles include: Amateur Theatricals, by C. Lang Neil (C. Arthur Pearson, 1904); — The Art of Mime, by Irene Mawer (Methuen & Co., 1936); — Cooke’s: Britain’s Greatest Circus Dynasty, by Stuart McMillan (The Smiddy, 2012); — Deception in Elizabethan Comedy, by John V. Curry (Loyola University Press, 1955); — Enter Foot and Horse: A History of Hippodrama in England and France, by A. H. Saxon (Yale, 1968); — Fifty Years of Spoof, by Arthur Roberts (John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., 1927). LIMITED EDITION, number 47 of 100; — Fires in Theatres, by Eyre M. Shaw (E. & F. N. Spon, 1889); — The Groucho Phile, by Groucho Marx and Hector Arce (Wallaby, 1977); — Hull Fair, by Stephen Smith and Kevin Scrivens (Hutton Press, 1991); — Kings, Queens and People’s Palaces, by Vivien Devlin (Polygon, 1991); — The Life of an Actor, by Pierce Egan (Pickering and Chatto, 1892); — “Master” and Men Pink ‘Un Yesterdays, by J. B. Booth (T. Werner Laurie Limited, 1927); — Movement in Two Dimensions, by Olive Cook (Hutchinson, 1963); — Music Hall Warriors, by Peter Honri (Greenwich Exchange, 1997); — The Naked Lady: A Biography of Adah Isaacs Menken, by Bernard Falk (Hutchinson, 1952); — Panoramania! By Ralph Hyde (Trefoil, 1988); — Punch and Judy, by Peter Fraser (B. T. Batsford, 1970); — Stage-Land: Curious Habits & Customs of Its Inhabitants, by Jerome K. Jerome (Chatto & Windus, 1892); — Theatre of Fire: Special Effects in Early English and Scottish Theatre, by Philip Butterworth (Society For Theatre Research, 1998); — Through Wooden Eyes, by Jan Bussell (Faber and Faber, 1956); — Visual Delights, by Simon Popple and Vanessa Toulmin, editors (Flicks, 2000); — The World of Midgets, by Walter Bodin and Burnet Hershey (Jarrolds, 1935); and many others. A few volumes INSCRIBED AND SIGNED. Bindings vary, most in publisher’s originals as issued. Many illustrated. Several with Dawes bookplates. The majority 4tos and 8vos. Generally good condition or better. Additional details or images available upon request.