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The Circus Book: 1870–1950 (2008)

by Noel Daniel(Favorite Author)

4.62 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

3822851531 (ISBN13: 9783822851531)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Taschen

review 1: 5 stars! 10 stars! All the stars in the sky! This book is simply amazing. Sure sure, it doesn't exactly get into the downside of circus life, sticking to a very romanticized picture of it. But any drawbacks that the writing has is more than made up for with the literally hundreds of photographs taken from the late 1800's into the 1950's. Some of the pictures are absolutely hypnotic. If you have any interest in circus life or old timey photography, I simply cannot recommend this book enough.
review 2: This is an incredible oversize book of reprints of amazing posters and photographs of circuses and its people from 1840-1950. The articles are printed in four languages. In the early circus days, there was no highway billboard space or television. So many of... more these posters were "sniped" in cities in advance of the circus coming to town. I borrowed by copy from the local library which had to special order ot. They kept it behind the counter. When I checked it out all the librarians wanted to weigh it! less

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