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Wed, Oct 23, 2019 02:30AM EDT
Lot 502

Ringling Bros. / Barnum & Bailey Group of Four Programs.

Estimate: $200 - $300

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Ringling Bros. / Barnum & Bailey Group of Four Programs. 1900s/1910s. Ten cent programs, including Barnum & Bailey ?Program and Book of Wonders?; Ringling Bros ?Solomon and the Queen of Sheba?; Barnum & Bailey ?Cleopatra? libretto (defective upper right corner); and Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth (1910). 4tos. Lithographed wrappers (by Strobridge and others), one lacking rear cover. A sixteen-page program for the 1915 season is tipped-in at start of the first Ringling volume, as issued.