Plowden gene (30 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

paperback. Zustand: Acceptable. Book shows shelf & handling wear, including edge chipping and scuffing. Spine is cracked and creasing, binding is intact but split near the center. Pages are slightly worn on their external edges. Interiors are intact with unmarked text/pictures.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Zustand: Good. Signed Copy First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. Inscribed by Merle Evans and signed by author on front endpage. Bookplate inside. (Circus Performers, Band Directors, Biography).

Hardcover. Zustand: NF. Hardback in Near Fine condition, Near Fine dust jacket Dj spine slightly faded. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 301 pages. Illustrated with photographs. Introduction by Roland Butler. * Quick Shipping * All Books Mailed in Boxes * Free Tracking Provided *.

Viel Abbildungen, oft in Farbe. 183 S, Ln+Schutzumschlag (dust jacket). Sehr gut erhalten (very good conditon). Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 720.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. Signed Copy . Good dust jacket. Signed by author on bookplate on front endpage. Slightly dampstained. In protective mylar cover. (Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey, Circus).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good with very good dust jacket. Inscribed by Merle Evans on front fly leaf above a photograph of Evans and three others. Dust jacket is lightly worn along top and bottom edges and at the corners with three edge tears of one inch or shorter.…

Hardcover. Introduction by Roland Butler. Small 4to. Yellow cloth with red lettering, pictorial dust jacket. Numerus illustrations, foldout chart. Near fine/good plus. Small name/address inkstamp on front flyleaf, which is faintly age toned from long-ago newsprint contact; jacket a bit edgeworn, with single edge chip and old mends on verso. A tight and attractive second printing. …

Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 96pp. Frontispiece, illustrations (some color). Near fine/very good. Reprint, tight and attractive.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 2020.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo. Frontispiece black and white photo of Merle Evans +27 other black and white captioned photos throughout. [List of] Hall of Fame Circus Band, Merle Evans, band master, 1919-1969. Photo pictorial dust jacket has two other black and white images of Merle Evans. Red cloth with gilt letters on the spine. Cloth clean and bright, gilt bright (!), all illustrations present and in fine condition, else fine with no internal markings. Dust jacket shows just hints of wear and is not price-clipped. "Among "windjammers" (the "in" term for Circus musicians), Merle Slease Evans [1891-1987] ranks first among equals. For more than 60 years he led bands on carnivals, medicine shows, showboats, University bands, and theatrical productions ¿ the last 50 of them as the band master of the famous Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Combined Shows, 50 years during which every conceivable circus act from the four corners of the earth was accompanied by Merle Evans' music. Gene Plowden, a former A. P. writer and successful author as well as a circus aficionado, has captured the essence and spirit of the man Merle Evans, of Circus life, and of the colorful world in which Circus folk lived. His story is more than a biography ¿ it is the story of Circus life as seen from the bandstand." [from the dust jacket].…

Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff red pictorial wrappers. 131pp. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations. Near fine. Handsome first edition.

Zustand: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Red Cloth with spine titles; The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Minimal shelf handling wear. 8vo; 8.75 inches tall; 154 pages; fully illustrated with b/w photographs. The Dust Jacket is with price and is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve has minor darkening of the white of the jacket. SIGNED with an inscription by the author. Merle Evans was a cornet player and circus band conductor who conducted the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus for fifty years. He was known as the "Toscanini of the Big Top." Evans was inducted into the American Bandmasters Association in 1947 and the International Circus Hall of Fame in 1975. Near Fine Hardcover in a Near Fine Dust Jacket.…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 8.43x5.85x0.73 inches. In Stock.

First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. ; 303 pages; Description: xiv, 303 p. Illus. , geneal. Table, ports. 24 cm. Bibliography: p. [302]-303. Subjects: Ringling Brothers. Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Combined Shows. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 2nd Printing. 312 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with black and white plates throughout. Bound in yellow cloth with red titles. Yellow dustjacket in good condition with black and red titles. Worn around the edges with chips and tears. Lightly faded on the spine. A large tear along the front flap. 2nd printing. VG/G. Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Very Good hardcover in Good DJ. 1967. SIGNED by author. PO's name on ffep, pages are otherwise clean, crisp and unmarked. DJ is edge worn.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day. Signed.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Those Amazing Ringlings and their Circus - Gene Plowden First edition, first printing 1967 by Bonanza New York, in great collectable condition. Bearing the stamp of The Circus Collection of Don Stacey who ran away from his bank job at 17 to join a circus, becoming closely involved with those of Bertram Mills, Billy Smart, Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey. Book Condition: Near Fine Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good (faded to spine, otherwise very bright and unclipped)).…

hardcover. Zustand: good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good(-). First. Illus. xii, 172pp. 8vo, red cloth, d.w. lightly soiled, several pages creased in margin of upper right corner, pencil annotations in margins of some pages, a few pages with pencil underlining to text. New York: Mason & Lipscomb, (1974). First Edition. Biography of horse trainers, Ben and Jimmy Jones. …

Zustand: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original Bordeaux cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 4to. 10½'' x 7¼''. Contains 183 printed pages of text with some colour plates and monochrome archive photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with light rubbing across the corners and spine ends, not price clipped, $9.95. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0912458305 SPORT [Horse Racing].…

hardcover. Zustand: Good. First edition. Hardback. No dust jacket.

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.