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The Zweifel Circus Collection

Sat, Sep 24, 2022 12:00PM EDT
Lot 46

[CIRCUS ? CHILDREN?S & POP UP BOOKS]. Group of 4 volumes. I...

Estimate: $125 - $250

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[CIRCUS ? CHILDREN?S & POP UP BOOKS]. Group of 4 volumes. Including: [The Great Menagerie]. N.p., 19th century (ca. 1890s?). Five disbound pop-ups, mounted on original leaves with decoratively printed borders (chipped) and lines of rhyming verse pertaining to the subject. Including: The Aquarium, The Elephant, The Roguish Apes, The Feathered Wild Man, and The Tiger from Bengal. Several with torn and chipped parts, but generally presentable. ? The Greatest Show on Earth. Chicago: W.B. Conkey, 1896. Cloth-backed boards. Illustrated with color chromolithograph illustrations of circus animals and performers. ? KUBNICK, Henrri. Pierre Luc (illus). Le Cirque. Paris: Grund, 1938. ? CLYNE, Geraldine. The Jolly Jump-Ups. McLoughlin Bros., 1944. With six circus pop-ups.