Oct 02, 2012 - Sale 2287

Sale 2287 - Lot 153

Price Realized: $ 132
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(CIRCUS.) Glenroy, John H. Ins and Outs of Circus Life, or Forty-Two Years Travel. 3 plates. 12mo, publisher's cloth, minimal wear, faint stain on front cover; related clipping and Autograph Note Signed by the author dated 16 April 1887 laid down on front pastedown. Boston, 1885

Additional Details

Glenroy was a bareback rider who toured North America, South America, and Cuba. "One of the rarest of American circus books"--Blumenthal, "Big Top Books," in American Book Collector 13:1 (September 1962), page 22.