Fried Spiral On A Stick
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For a Short Time Only: Itinerants and the Resurgence of Popular Culture in Early America
by:
Peter Benes
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 8. 
"We Were Five:" The Dionne Quintuplets' Story From Birth Through Girlhood to Womanhood
by:
James Brough
3.67 avg rating — 141 ratings 
10. 
A Sawdust Heart: My Vaudeville Life in Medicine and Tent Shows
by:
Henry Wood
3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings 12. 
Nucci: 13th Flyer in History to Do a Triple Somersault
by:
Adrian C Catarzi
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
14. 
The history of Noell's Ark gorilla show: The funniest show on earth, which features the "worlds only athletic apes"
by:
Anna Mae Noell
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
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Showmen and Suckers; An excursion on the crazy fringe of the entertainment world
by:
Maurice Gorham
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
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The Thrill Makers: Celebrity, Masculinity, and Stunt Performance
by:
Jacob Smith
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings 
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Keeping Carnies Honest: Police Officer's Field Guide to Carnival Game Inspections
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Lindsay Smith
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 25. 
Savage of King's Lynn: Inventor of machines & merry-go-rounds it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Madness in the Making: The Triumphant Rise & Untimely Fall of America's Show Inventors
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David Lindsay
4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings 27. 
Freak Show Man: The autobiography of Harry Lewiston, as told to Jerry Holtman
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Jerry Holtman
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 28. 
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Act as known: Australian speciality acts on the world vaudeville / variety circuits from 1900 to 1960
by:
Valantyne Napier
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
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Olympians of the Sawdust Circle: A Biographical Dictionary of the Nineteenth Century American Circus
by:
William L. Slout
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 32. 
Grace, Beauty and Banjos: Peculiar Lives and Strange Times of Music Hall and Variety Artistes 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Pictorial History of the American Carnival
by:
Joe McKennon
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 34. 
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Spangles & Sawdust: The Circus in Australia
by:
Mark St Leon
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 36. 
The Celluloid Circus: The Heyday of the New Zealand Picture Theatre, 1925-1970
by:
Wayne Brittenden
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 37. 
Pure Folly: The Story of Those Remarkable People, the Follies
by:
Fitzroy Gardner
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
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Carl Hagenbeck's Empire of Entertainments (McLellan Endowed Series xx)
by:
Eric Ames
4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings 44. 
Monster Midway: An Uninhibited Look at the Glittering World of the Carny 4.34 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Armless Fiddler: A Pediscript Being the Life Story of a Vaudeville Man really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Swim Pretty: Aquatic Spectacles and the Performance of Race, Gender, and Nature 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Two Fat Ladies and Hercules Tom: The Story of the Australian Giant Family it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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A World of Popular Entertainments: An Edited Volume of Critical Essays
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Gillian Arrighi
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
59. 
Monsters: Human Freaks in America's Gilded Age: The Photographs of Chas Eisenmann 4.15 avg rating — 26 ratings
61. 
Fighting Nature: Travelling Menageries, Animal Acts and War Shows
by:
Peta Tait
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
64. 
When Pigs Could Fly and Bears Could Dance: A History of the Soviet Circus
by:
Miriam Neirick
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 65. 
Water Spectacles in the Circus: Aqua Shows Around the World
by:
Don Stacey
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
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An Arm of Iron: The Life and Times of the Entertainer Stanley Holloway
by:
Roy Walding
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
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Roller Coasters of Death: Amusement Ride-Related Injuries and Deaths in the United States 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Alay-Oop: Life and Love Among the Acrobats, Told Entirely in Pictures
by:
William Gropper
3.84 avg rating — 132 ratings 77. 
The Great Hartford Circus Fire: Creative Settlement of Mass Disasters
by:
Henry S. Cohn
4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings 
81. 
When the Circus Came to Town! An American Tradition in Photographs
by:
Dawn Rogala
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 
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Bolossy Kiralfy, creator of great musical spectacles: An autobiography
by:
Bolossy Kiralfy
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 84. 
Joe Strong the Boy Fire-Eater: The Most Dangerous Performance on Record
by:
Vance Barnum
4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings 
86. 
The Fairground Organ: Its Music, Mechanism and History
by:
Eric V. Cockayne
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
88. 
The Baron of Piccadilly: The Travels and Entertainments of Albert Smith 1816-1860 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Harlequin Britain: Pantomime and Entertainment, 1690-1760
by:
John O'Brien
3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings 90. 
Fairground Attractions: A Genealogy of the Pleasure Ground
by:
Deborah Philips
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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The Mimic World and Public Exhibitions: Their History, Their Morals, and Effects
by:
Olive Logan
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
95. 
The Congress of Clowns and Other Russian Circus Acts
by:
Joel Schechter
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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Circus as Multimodal Discourse: Performance, Meaning, and Ritual
by:
Paul Bouissac
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings 
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The Hanlon Brothers: From Daredevil Acrobatics to Spectacle Pantomime, 1833-1931
by:
Mark Cosdon
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 100. 
Once a Clown, Always a Clown: Reminiscences of DeWolf Hopper
by:
DeWolf Hopper
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings