circus of Dr. Lao von Finney (124 Ergebnisse)

First British edition. First British edition, first printing. Signed by Charles G. Finney on the half title, inscribed to "Lester Koening - with the regards of the author Charles G. Finney / Tucson, May 18, 1949." Koening, the inscribee was an American screenwriter, film producer, and founder of the jazz record label Contemporary Records. In the 1950s he was blacklisted by HUAC. 151 pp. Bound in publisher's yellow cloth with green pictorial stamping, spine lettered in gilt, green top stain. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket, spine panel a little toned and edge worn. Quite uncommon signed by the author. A deeply weird yet enoyable circus-themed novel that defies easy categorization or description. It has been called "dark fantasy" and humor. There are also elements of metafiction to it like the footnotes at the end, dubbed "The Catalogue." This UK edition follows the American original by 13 years, and has decidedly darker style of illustrations by G.N. Fish rather than Boris Artzybasheff. Inspired the 1964 film 7 Faces of Dr. Lao.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. David Ho and Matthew Jaffe (illustrator). Limited Edition. Black cloth, silver gilt and blind-stamped. Limited edition (97 of 250). Signed by the introducer and the two new illustrators. Held in a tan slipcase. Reprinting and adding to Finney's work, including the original story which stole its name, coincidentally the name of this book, from a collection made by Ray Bradbury. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by introducer and illustrator(s). Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Boris Artzybasheff(Illustrator) (illustrator). First Edition. The Circus of Dr. Lao by Charles G. Finney (First Edition) Firm copy with minor rubbing to corners and spine ends. Wear to edges and spine ends with sunning to spine. Pink water staining to inner back cover showing through slightly. Original red cloth with black paper plate title and decoration. Pictorial dust jacket illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff. "To which Boris Artzybasheff has added seven interpretations of his own." It won one of the inaugural National Book Awards: the Most Original Book of 1935. The novel is set in the fictional town of Abalone, Arizona. A circus owned by a Chinese man named Dr. Lao pulls into town one day, carrying legendary creatures from all areas of mythology and legend, among them a sea serpent, Apollonius of Tyana (who tells dark, yet always truthful, fortunes), a medusa, and a satyr. Through interactions with the circus, the locals attain various enigmatic peak experiences appropriate to each one's personality. The novel was later adapted by Charles Beaumont into the script for an effects-filled 1964 movie 7 Faces of Dr. Lao. The film features a great deal of stop-motion animation and was produced by George Pal, a stop-motion animator of long experience. BOOK.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Claire Van Vliet (illustrator). Limited Edition. Introduction by Edward Hoagland. Relief Etchings by Claire Van Vliet. Of two thousand signed and numbered copies this is copy 747. Signed by Illustrator Claire Von Vliet. Monthly Letter of The Limited Editions Club laid in. New Hardcover in Full Decorative Cloth w/ New Matching Cloth Slipcase. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Claire Van Vliet (illustrator). 123p. illus. by Claire Van Vliet. Limited edition of 2000 copies printed by the Stinehour Press and signed by the illustrator. Very good condition in slipcase.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Publishers red cloth binding, paper title label to spine, illustrated label to cover. Illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff. Little age toning to the illustrated endpapers, NEAR FINE lacking the dust jacket.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Frayed DJ. Fish, Gordon Noel (illustrator). First English Edition. 151pp Illus The circus comes to Abalone, AZ.(loc. 702/1).

(152) pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First English edition. First English edition. (152) pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Arizona 100:29 Yellow cloth. Dust jacket chipped, else fine.

VAN VLIER, Calie (illustrator). FINNEY, Charles G. The Circus of Dr. Lao. With an Introduction by Edward Hoagland. Relief Etchings by Calie Van Vliet. 4to. Orig. decorated cloth in publisher's cloth slipcase. N.Y.: Printed at the Stinehour Press for the members of the Limited Editions Club, 1982. Limited to 2,000 copies signed by the illustrator. A fine copy with publisher's prospectus laid in.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Boris Artzybasheff (illustrator). First Thus. 159pp.Blue Pictorial wraps illustrations. Signed and Inscribed by the author on the dedication page, "and to', Richard, who is a Cirque d/hiver-Happy Birthday, Love, Charles G. Finney & Susan".Toning to the covers, spine lightly scuffed. Abalone, Arizona, is a sleepy southwestern town whose chief concerns are boredom and surviving the Great Depression. That is, until the circus of Dr. Lao arrives and immensely and irrevocably changes the lives of everyone drawn to its tents. Expecting a sideshow spectacle, the citizens of Abalone instead confront and learn profound lessons from the mythical made real--a chimera, a Medusa, a talking sphinx, a sea serpent, witches, the Hound of the Hedges, a werewolf, a mermaid, an ancient god, and the elusive, ever-changing Dr. Lao." Size: Octavo. Signed and Inscribed the the Author.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Vliet, Claire Van (illustrator). Limited Edition. Folio. Includes slipcase. Limited Edition of 2000 signed and numbered copies. This is copy no.543. Signed by the illustrator, Claire Van Vliet. Bound in cotton cloth with a Thebes pattern designed by Susan Thatcher for Lee/Jofa. Claire Van Vliet's illustrations printed from her original relief etchings. Shelfwear: light scuffing along cover edges. Tightly bound, no marks. Volume is in Very Good-plus condition. Some scratch marks on slipcase and light fraying along edges. Slipcase is in Very Good-minus condition. Signed by Author(s).

First edition, July 1935. First edition, July 1935. Illustrated by Boris Artybasheff. 154, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Currey, p. 187 Red cloth with pictorial label on upper cover, title label on spine. Fine copy (tiniest scuffs to spine label), without dust jacket, ex libris of Ten H. Chiu Illustrated by Boris Artybasheff. 154, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor. 1st Edition. Scarce and desirable. Tremendous artwork Not a complete dustjacket. It has been cut and pasted to front and back boards of this copy.

Cloth boards in slip-case. Illus. Clare van Vliet (illustrator). Limited Ed. Limited edition, quarto, original Thebes patten cloth boards, relief etching illustrations. Number 944 of 2000, signed and numbered by the artist. In original slipcase with light water stain to rear. Publisher's brochure (Monthly Letter of The Limited Editions Club, September 1982) loosely inserted. Near fine condition in like slipcase. A novella set in the fictional town of Abalone, Arizona.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. VERY GOOD+ condition SLIPCASE: Minor wear w/loose seams, bottom rear. BOARDS: Very good condition. No issues. BOOK: Very good condition. No issues. Please inspect photos closely for condition details. THIS IS A LARGE BOOK. ************************* Here on offer is an exceptionally nice copy of Charles Finney's award-winning novel, The Circus of Dr. Lao, a fantastical and macabre work which won the inaugural National Book Award for Most Original Book of 1935. This copy is a limited edition, numbered and signed by the artist, Claire Van Vliet, and published by the Limited Editions Club in 1982. The book is housed in a hardshell slipcase and includes the LEC monthly newsletter for this title. ************************************ The Limited Editions Club was a subscription-based book club founded in 1929 by George Macy (1900-1956) to publish finely made and finely illustrated limited editions of the classics of literature - and of a few carefully selected contemporary titles, such as The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. ***** Most of the books were beautifully illustrated with original artwork by leading book illustrators. In most cases, the illustrators handsigned each copy of the books that they illustrated for the LEC. ********************************** "Abalone, Arizona, is a sleepy southwestern town whose chief concerns are boredom and surviving the Great Depression. That is, until the circus of Dr. Lao arrives and immensely and irrevocably changes the lives of everyone drawn to its tents. ***** Expecting a sideshow spectacle, the citizens of Abalone instead confront and learn profound lessons from the mythical made real--a chimera, a Medusa, a talking sphinx, a sea serpent, witches, the Hound of the Hedges, a werewolf, a mermaid, an ancient god, and the elusive, ever-changing Dr. Lao. The circus unfolds, spinning magical, dark strands that ensnare the town's populace: the sea serpent's tale shatters love's illusions; the fortune-teller's shocking pronouncements toll the tedium and secret dread of every person's life; sensual undercurrents pour forth for men and women alike; and the dead walk again. ***** Dazzling and macabre, literary and philosophical, The Circus of Dr. Lao has been acclaimed as a masterpiece of speculative fiction and influenced such writers as Ray Bradbury." /////////////////////////////////// Charles Grandison Finney (December 1, 1905 April 16, 1984) was an American news editor and fantasy novelist, the great-grandson of evangelist Charles Grandison Finney. His first novel and most famous work, The Circus of Dr. Lao, won one of the inaugural National Book Awards: the Most Original Book of 1935. ///// Finney was born in Sedalia, Missouri, and served in Tientsin, China, with the U.S. Army 15th Infantry Regiment (E Company) from 1927 to 1929. ///// In his memoirs, he notes that The Circus of Dr. Lao was conceived in Tientsin during 1929. After the Army, he worked as an editor for the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson, Arizona from 1930 to 1970. . . . ///// Finney's work, especially The Circus of Dr. Lao, has been influential on subsequent writers of fantasy. Ray Bradbury admired the novel and anthologized it in The Circus of Dr. Lao and Other Improbable Stories; Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes shares with Dr. Lao the setting of a supernatural circus. ********** The above text was taken from, respectively, University of Nebraska Press (via Google Books) and Wikipedia.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No dustwrapper. First Edition. First Printing. A Fine copy in ruby red cloth, spine and front cover labels, lacking the scarce dustwrapper. Illustrated endpapers. 155pp. with Eight black and white illustrations in text by Artzybasheff. Q18463.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. A Lovely Copy - Like New in a Very Good Slipcase! This Signed, Limited Edition, oversized hardcover book has 123 pages including many illustrations. The author Signed the Limited Edition page. This is book number 8 of 2,000 copies. The copyright page shows 1982 as the published date. We always ship in a sturdy box.

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. Boris Artzybasheff (illustrator). 1st Edition. Minor edge wear. In protective cover. First edition thus, first printing. Stated 1961 compass edition with no other later printings listed; whereas, other later printings list first printing and their print date.

Zustand: Fine. FIRST EDITION THUS. FIRST PRINTING. HARDCOVER Signed by the Illustrator Clair Van Vliet Book condition is Fine. Missing the Slipcase This is copy number #1921 of limited edition of 2,000. Introduction by Edward Hoagland. 9.5 x 12.25 Inches in size 122 numbered pages.

Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. A 1945 printing. The first two pages have two light creases. Yellow dust jacket has 2" ragged tear at the top of spine. 1/4" missing across the top and 1/8" missing ac ross the bottom of the spine. Spine and edges are browning with age. 5.00 price intact on jacket flap.

Reprint of the 1935 Viking edition. 8vo. 154 pp. Illustrations from line drawings, plates, one double-page, illus. endpapers. A classic of fantasy literature. Very good. Original red cloth, paper labels on spine and front board, printed dust jacket (some minor edgewear and sunning). (9662).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Boris Artzybasheff (illustrator). 8vo. 154, [1]. Burgundy cloth with paper spine label and illustration mounted to the front board. Spine ends lightly bumped, book clean throughout, binding tight and square. The yellow dust jacket printed in red and black, with chipped spine ends and light chipping to the corners. A good clean copy overall. Second edition.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Excellent Condition.Excels in customer satisfaction, prompt replies, and quality checks.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. 1935. 1961, 2nd printing. Softcover book. Sturdy binding. The text part of the book is clean and unmarked. Light wear to the edge. Foxing on outside edges. Sealed in Shrink Wrap for protection in storage and shipping. Expertly packed. *PROFESSIONAL BOOKSELLER* Returns accepted. Refunds given.

8vo Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Artzybasheff, Boris (illustrator). 1st Edition, 2nd Printing. 154p. Bright pages are unmarked with b/w illustrations. Red cloth boards with paste down on center have gently bumped corners and minimal wear otherwise. Binding is tight, hinges are secure. Previous owner's name penned on front endpaper.

Second printing, 8vo, 154, (2) pp. 8 plates, one double page and another not listed, pictorial endpapers, owner's ink stamp to the fly leaf verso, offset opposite. Original red cloth, a few marks, spine label slightly rubbed.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Daniel Schwartz Painted cover (illustrator). PBO - Paperback Original (True 1st). 210 pages. COLLECTION OF 11 STORIES; ** The The Circus of Dr. Lao novel is the Source for the 1964 MOVIE by George Pal, with Charles Beaumont screenplay; The Film Starred: Tony Randall, Barbara Eden, Arthur O'Connell; A mysterious circus comes to a western town bearing wonders and characters that entertain the inhabitants and teach valuable lessons. >> Heavy creasing to backcover; Indents to covers. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Boris Artzybasheff (illustrator). Later Printing. New York: Viking Press, 1936. Finney's fantasy novel was his first, and it won a National Book Award. First published in 1935; this is a Very Good copy of the Third Printing from August of 1936 [stated]. Red cloth binding; paper illustration tipped on to the front cover; titling on a paper label on the spine. Clean text; 154 pages. Wonderfully illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff. Hardly any wear; some darkening to the spine. Lacking a dustjacket; in an archival plastic protector. [Note: due to a computer crash, this book may also appear as # 002855]. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Boris Artzybasheff. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Zustand: Very Good. Ben Abramson New York 1945.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Stated Third Printing, 1964. Mild wear to edges; some sunning to back cover. Light tanning to pages. "X" stamp on bottom of page edges only; black marker mark on top of page edges only. Internally clean.