Item 326876Gen. Tom Thumb and Wife.
Price: $250
New York: [ca. 1880]. Appears to be signed on verso in pencil: "Genl. Tom Thumb/ Mrs., Genl. Tom Thumb/ June 1881" Read More Item Details for Gen. Tom Thumb and Wife Add to Wish List
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Item 326874Chang-Yu-Sing, The Chinese Giant. Born at Pekin, 1847, Height over 8 feet, Weight 26 Stone. Now with Barnu, Bailey &...
Price: $650
New York: [ca. 1880]. Signed in graphite in Chinese characters on verso presumably by Chang. Read More Item Details for Chang-Yu-Sing, The Chinese Giant. Born at Pekin, 1847, Height over 8 feet, Weight 26 Stone. Now with Barnu, Bailey & Hutchinson Add to Wish List
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Item 218547Struggles and Triumphs or, Sixty Years’ Recollections…Including His golden rules for Money-Making.
Price: $2,090
Buffalo: The Courier Company, Printers, 1889. First edition. Read More Item Details for Struggles and Triumphs or, Sixty Years’ Recollections…Including His golden rules for Money-Making Add to Wish List
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Capote's First Play, Inscribed to Harold Arlen ahead of their Collaboration in 'House of Flowers'
Item 376361The Grass Harp.
Price: $9,500
New York: Random House, [1952]. First edition, first printing. A superb presentation copy of Capote's first play, inscribed to Harold Arlen, Capote's friend, surrogate father and mentor. The inscription reads "Harold: May 'House of Flowers' play a longer time than the Grass Harp - your dear friend and colleague Truman..... Read More Item Details for The Grass Harp Add to Wish List
Item #376361
Inscribed by Capote to his Mentor and Collaborator
Item 333313Local Color.
Price: $8,500
New York: Random House, [1950]. Stated first printing. A charmingly inscribed copy from Capote to Harold Arlen, his friend, surrogate father and mentor. Inscribed "for Harold, my very own bit of Local Color - Love from Truman Feb. 1954 (The day I said 'It doesn't sing, Harold.')" Arlen, the composer..... Read More Item Details for Local Color Add to Wish List
Item #333313
Inscribed by Capote to the Mentor "Who Made it All Possible"
Item 376364The Muses are Heard.
Price: $8,500
New York: Random House, [1956]. Stated first printing. A copy of Capote's early journalistic work, first published in The New Yorker, inscribed to his friend, surrogate father and mentor, Harold Arlen. Arlen, the composer of Over the Rainbow and many celebrated musicals, befriended the young Capote, who lived off and..... Read More Item Details for The Muses are Heard Add to Wish List
Item #376364
Inscribed to Capote's Mentor and Stand-in Father
Item 333311Other Voices, Other Rooms.
Price: $10,000
New York: Random House, [1948]. Stated first printing. A copy of Capote's Southern Gothic coming-of-age story, inscribed to his friend, surrogate father and mentor, Harold Arlen. Warmly and personally inscribed, "Harold- Just Plain Love from your own child Truman Feb. 1954." Arlen, the composer of Over the Rainbow and many..... Read More Item Details for Other Voices, Other Rooms Add to Wish List
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Inscribed to Capote's Collaborator with a Lyric from their Iconic Song
Item 376363A Tree of Night.
Price: $8,500
New York: Random House, [1949]. Stated first printing. A copy of Capote's short story collection inscribed to his collaborator, friend, surrogate father and mentor, Harold Arlen. The inscription reads, "Ah, Harold- I have found a Love True Sweet Golden as a Crown Truman Feb. 1954." It borrows from the lyrics..... Read More Item Details for A Tree of Night Add to Wish List
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Item 222955Portrait photograph of Carol Channing "en chinoise"
Price: $1,000
New York: January 5, 1956. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Carol Channing "en chinoise" Add to Wish List
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Item 222159Portrait photograph of Carol Channing in GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES.
Price: $1,000
New York: January 5, 1956. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Carol Channing in GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES Add to Wish List
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Item 222954Portrait photograph of Carol Channing in GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES.
Price: $800
New York: January 5, 1956. The print used for reproduction in PORTRAITS (1978). Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Carol Channing in GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES Add to Wish List
Item #222954
Inscribed by the Last of Barnum's Clowns
Item 21628Hold Yer Hosses! The Elephants are Coming.
Price: $200
New York: Macmillan Company, 1932. First edition. Inscribed on the front free endpaper “For the members of the Boys Club of New York in the fond hope they may enjoy reading this partial record of my happy past. ‘Uncle ’ Bob Sherwood, Last of Barnum's Clowns. New York City, 1934”..... Read More Item Details for Hold Yer Hosses! The Elephants are Coming Add to Wish List
Item #21628
INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO HIS PARENTS
Item 325170Big Show.
Price: $200
New York: Haper, 1938. First Edition. A Harper "Find" novel about the circus, inscribed on ffep to the author's parents by the author. Read More Item Details for Big Show Add to Wish List
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Inscribed
Item 20512Circus Day.
Price: $150
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, [1931]. Inscribed on the free endpaper “Four Circus Guys are better any day than Four Hawaiians–So step Closah-h-h Friends! This book is inscribed by Courtney Ryley Cooper (world's imfamous clown and worse writer) to Eddie Nemo (world's infamouser laugh eradicator) thence to Leonard Traube (late..... Read More Item Details for Circus Day Add to Wish List
Item #20512
Item 37701Fahrend Volk. Abnormitäten, Kuriositäten und interessante Vertreter der wandernden Künstlerwelt.
Price: $850
Leipzig: Verlagsbuchhandlung von J.J. Weber, 1895. First Edition. Read More Item Details for Fahrend Volk. Abnormitäten, Kuriositäten und interessante Vertreter der wandernden Künstlerwelt Add to Wish List
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Item 6585The Circus: or, British Olympicks. A Satyr on the Ring in Hide-Park.
Price: $200
London: [Henry Hills], 1709. Piracy of the First Edition (printed in the same year). Read More Item Details for The Circus: or, British Olympicks. A Satyr on the Ring in Hide-Park Add to Wish List
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Toby, in Menotti's THE MEDIUM, 1946
Item 222444Portrait photograph of Leo Coleman [aka Leopoldo Savarona] as Toby in Gian-Carlo Menotti's opera, THE MEDIUM.
Price: $900
New York: May 18, 1946. A very rare and early image (none are in the Library of Congress) of the versatile and prolific actor, choreographer, screenwriter and director who worked on stage and screen in Italy in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. Born Leopoldo Savarona in Italy in 1922 (known..... Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Leo Coleman [aka Leopoldo Savarona] as Toby in Gian-Carlo Menotti's opera, THE MEDIUM Add to Wish List
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Item 352764Scene. With a Foreward and an Introductory poem by John Masefield.
Price: $150
London: Humphrey Milford OUP. Read More Item Details for Scene. With a Foreward and an Introductory poem by John Masefield Add to Wish List
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Inscribed
Item 325625Monster Midway. An Uninhibited Look at the Glittering World of the Carny.
Price: $6,000
New York: Rinehart & Company, 1953. First edition. Inscribed on the front flyleaf to Fletcher & Inga Pratt by the author : “For Fletcher & Inga and all the monks, all of whom have put up with me through the ‘difficult’ years, all my love, Bill Gresham Nov. 16 /’..... Read More Item Details for Monster Midway. An Uninhibited Look at the Glittering World of the Carny Add to Wish List
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Item 222017Portrait of Juanita Hall as "Bloody Mary" in SOUTH PACIFIC.
Price: $1,500
New York: June 25, 1949. She was "Bloody Mary" in the original 1949 production of South Pacific. Although Afro-American, the most memorable roles of the great singer-actress Juanita Hall (1901 - 1968) were as Asians. Read More Item Details for Portrait of Juanita Hall as "Bloody Mary" in SOUTH PACIFIC Add to Wish List
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"Lots of Handkerchiefs"
Item 309255Autograph album signed by Louis Armstrong.
Price: $450
c. 1962. Inscirbed: "To Tommy/"Man" I prespire (sic) so much until I have to use lots of handkerchiefs/Louis Armstrong/Satchmo" Other signatures include: Billy Kyle (pianist) on ffep, Trummy Young (trombonist), Barrett Deems (drummer), Velma Middleton (singer), Squire Gersh (Tubist), and the cast and crew of the Harry Hickox/Dianne Barton touring..... Read More Item Details for Autograph album signed by Louis Armstrong Add to Wish List
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Item 219051Portrait photograph of Ferenc Molnar.
Price: $1,000
New York: February 15, 1941. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Ferenc Molnar Add to Wish List
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Item 306472Kiss Me, Kate. A Muscial Play. Book by …. Lyrics by Cole Porter.
Price: $500
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. First edition. The witty and playful transmutation of The Taming of the Shrew, with songs by Cole Porter. Read More Item Details for Kiss Me, Kate. A Muscial Play. Book by …. Lyrics by Cole Porter Add to Wish List
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Item 232285Photograph of Diana Rigg, in costume for the movie version of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC.
Price: $150
[Hollywood? ca, 1978]. Inscribed by the actress and singer to HUGH WHEELER, who wrote the book for Sondheim's A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, adapted from Ingmar Bergman's SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT. Read More Item Details for Photograph of Diana Rigg, in costume for the movie version of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC Add to Wish List
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Scarce Van Vechten Portrait of Simonson scenic Designer
Item 57924Portrait photograph of Lee Simonson.
Price: $500
November 23, 1933. Lee Simonson (1888-1967), a major force in American scenic design, discovered in his youth what the "painters' and designers' vision could do to revivify the theater." A rare Van Vechten image -- no copy exists in the Library of Congress Collection of Van Vechten photographs. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Lee Simonson Add to Wish List
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