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Tarrytown, New York: Young Men's Lyceum Club. Soft cover. Very Good. 8" x 10" [Ca. 1902.] Pamphlet. [4] p.p. Programme features in middle column, with advertisements to lef and right columns, and head and foot of pages. Light foxing. Closed tears previously repaired with tape to p.p. 1 and 3. Pages browned. Some small nicks to edges, with sporadic tiny holes to pages. Else ia very good copy. Rare. Official Circus Programme guide for the Young Men's Lyceum in Tarrytown New New York, that took place in the clubs Music Hall on December 11, 12, and 13th. The programme promises audiences a Freak House, featuring The Albino Lady, The Leopard Boy, The S.S.S. Whiskerino now the Bearded Lady, The Dog Faced Boy, and 'lectures that will be delivered at regular intervals, showing how these great wonders have been brought into a state of tractibility, tranquility, and trubecility." The circus also features a buffalo, loaned from Buffalo Bill, Royal Bengal Tiger, a Lion and Elephant; an arena with strong man… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Quarter yellow paper, blue paper boards. viii, 279 pp. [14] pp. B&W plates of photos. Soiling to spine head, edges and turn-ins. Dust jacket is price clipped, age toned, foxed, short tears to edges.

New York: Bonanza Books, 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Full red cloth. 96 pp. B&W photos in text. Dust jacket is sunned and bumped to extremities, perforation to rear cover, else fine. The name of Gargantua was a household word throughout the USA, and his picture was spread around the world. After twelve years of stardom, major wire services flashed the news of his death around the world. Veteran newsman Gene Plowden, who covered the Gargantua story personally and who is a circus authority of renown, relates not only the surface success story but goes behind the scenes to reveal the stories of the many persons involved in the gorilla's life -- owners, keepers, and many others.

New York: Aperture. A New Images Book, 1982. Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall. 70 pages. [33] p.p. of b/w portrait photographs and text by Randal Levenson. Rubbed front and rear boards. Otherwise in very good condition.

Jamestown, N.Y.: John C. Kunzog, 1962. First Ediition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo. xiv, 434 p.p. Numerous b/w photographs and illustrations. Light soiling, small tear to rear jacket cover. Otherwise in fine condition.

Arkansas: New Leaf Press, 1980. First Ediition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Signed by Austin Miles on front free endpaper.192 p.p., [2] full pages of photgraphs, with numerous in-text. Light soiling, rubbing to jacket. In fine condition.