Curro, Evelyn AMERICANA PRINTBOOK NO.5: OLD CIRCUS PARADE WAGONS 12 Color Lithographs 1st Edition 1st Printing Hardcover New York Lark Press 1954 Very Good in blue cloth boards. Staining to front panel. Portfolio with pictorial label which says a book of 12 prints, easily removed for framing, of famous carved and gilded wagons dating from early 19th Century. These fabulous remnants of the great parade days, now unknown or forgotten by many, represent one of the brightest eras in pioneer American show history. Some of the wagons pictured are now in the circus Museum at Sarasota, Florida, some are in private collections, and some have disappeared entirely; " 10 of 12 plates. 2 missing. Price sticker residue to rear pastedown.
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