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"The present collection of books relating to the circus... was formed by a man whose whole life was the circus. Jo van Doveren started his career as a 'plakker', the man who pasted up the posters... he developed into an outstandingly successful publicist... Among the circuses in the Netherlands with which he was connected for many years were Hagenbeck, Busch, Sarrasani and Strassburger, and among the little-known artists he introduced to the Netherlands... were Marcel Marceaux and Les Frères Jacques..." Book auction catalog: 36 pages, illus., approx. 11 lots per page plus several bulk lots at end; 25 cm.; stapled in Sotheby's yellow-and-black covers; Very Good. Stock#ofc0190.

Paperback. 1970. 36pp card covers, London 1970. With informed annotations & corrections, sl. used. .