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Lot 465
[CIRCUS]. Group of 5 French volumes.
Estimate: $250 - $500
Sold for
$240
Sold Price includes BP
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[CIRCUS]. Group of 5 French volumes. Including:
SERGE (Maurice Feaudierre). Panorama du Cirque. Paris: Arc en Ciel, 1944. Portfolio of circus lithographs, with booklet, from an edition of 1,000, in original folding paper-covered box.
GROCK. Sans blague! ma carriere de clown. Paris: Flammarion, 1948. LIMITED EDITION, number 63 of 100 copies, inscribed and signed by Grock to Jose Dugardein with an ink self-portrait.
THETARD, Henry. Coulisses et Secrets du Cirque. Paris: Plon, 1934.
SERGE. Vive le Cirque. Paris: Marcel Seheur, 1930. Limited edition, one of 2,500 copies. Folding color lithograph frontispiece, plates, and illustrations. Ownership stamp of Jose Dugardein.
STREHLY, G. L'Acrobatie et Les Acrobates. Paris: Ch. Delagrave, ca. 1900. Paolo Fratellini's copy, with a 1929 inscription and his bookplate.
Size 4to and 12mo. Various contemporary bindings.
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