Under the Big Top
Cooper, Courtney Ryley
Published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1923
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First edition. [xii], 238 pp. Publisher's green cloth with orange lettering, photo mounted on front board. Fine with tiny emboss of "The Rock and Gift Shop of Sioux City, Iowa" on front free endpaper, clean and bright, in Very Good dust jacket with a few small chips and tears along edges, rubbing to front panel, unclipped ($2.50). A memoir of circus life by a prolific writer who later specialized in true crime writing. He was a friend and confidant of FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover who wound up dead in 1940 after investigating German espionage in Mexico; the official cause of death was suicide but his wife and others felt it was foul play. Seller Inventory # 140940576
Bibliographic Details
Title: Under the Big Top
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, Boston
Publication Date: 1923
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition.
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Under the Big Top
Published by
Little Brown, Boston, 1923
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: J. W. Mah, Burnaby, BC, Canada
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good (-). 1st. (USA) Presumed 1st edition "Published August 1923". Owner's name and date of 1923 to end paper, no other markings, hint of spine slant, Very Good (-); lacking the dust jacket. Apple green cloth with pastedown shpwing a photo of 7 clowns, 238pp, Frontis, and 11 photo plates. the most interesting of which shows Buffalo Bill. Courtney Ryley Cooper was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on October 31, 1886. At the age of 16, he left home to join a traveling circus and eventually became a circus clown, working his way up to general manager of the circus. In 1914, as a result of his work at the Denver Post, he became the press agent for the Sells-Floto Circus, which was owned by the owners of the Post. The Sells-Floto had absorbed the assets of William "Buffalo Bill" Cody's Wild West Show, including Buffalo Bill himself. Cooper's work was much admired by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, who once said he is "the best informed man on crime in the U. S." even allowing Cooper access to FBI case files. Cooper is widely believed to have ghostwritten the book Persons in Hiding (1938) as well as a number of magazine articles for Hoover. On September 29, 1940, Cooper committed suicide by hanging himself in the closet of a hotel room in the Park Central Hotel in New York City. He left a note instructing that the cash in his clothing should be used to settle his hotel bill but giving no indication as to a motivation for his suicide. In his FBI file, there are letters to Hoover from two associates stating that Cooper did not commit suicide but was murdered. (1.5 JM HOQ 101/2 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Seller Inventory # 06512
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Under the Big Top
Published by
Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1923
Used
Hardcover
Seller: Adams Shore Books, Quincy, MA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Green boards with a pasted title of a colored illustration of clowns and ladies in big dresses. This picture has scratches to it. Gilt lettering. The spine is sunned. End papers are clean except for a pencil price on a rear end paper. Pages are toned. No foxing. Some pages are stained at the bottom corners. The damp stain penetrates about 1" from the bottom corner on pages intermittently. The book leans forward a bit. Some soiling to the back and front panel. Seller Inventory # 001972
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Under the Big Top
Published by
Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1924
Used
Hardcover
Seller: Quaker House Books, Catawissa, PA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. In green cloth covers and blinstamped in black lettering and pictorials. Black lettering on spine. Blue stained top edge. Square, intact and tight binding. Clean and unmarked endpapers and text pages. Bumping of ends of spine. Moderate shelf rubbing. Photos upon request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 003311
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Under the Big Top
Published by
Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1925
Used
Hardcover
Seller: Monroe Street Books, Middlebury, VT, U.S.A.
Seller rating 3 out of 5 stars
Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. 238 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Purple top edge. Light foxing to edges. Clean, tight copy. Record # 611049. Seller Inventory # 611049
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Under the big top,
Published by
Little, Brown, and company
Used
Hardcover
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.15. Seller Inventory # GB0006AJ1D6I5N01
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Under the big top,
Published by
Little, Brown, and company
Used
Hardcover
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.15. Seller Inventory # GB0006AJ1D6I3N01
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UNDER THE BIG TOP
Published by
Little Brown & Co.
Used
Hardcover
Seller: Koster's Collectible Books, Farmingville, NY, U.S.A.
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
Condition: Good++, Fair. 2nd printing, 1923. 8VO, 238 pgs., B/W Photos, Hardcover Hardcover in dust jacket. Green cloth boards with title in yellow and color photo tipped in on front board. Board soil and edge wear. Frayed corners and spine ends. Spine slant. Foredge and endpaper soil. Text pages are clean. Tattered dust jacketjacket has large sections missing from front cover and spine. Rubbed and worn edges and corners. Front and back covers are tanned and soiled. Held together by new protective mylar. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase. Seller Inventory # 018176
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Under the Big Top
Published by
Little Brown and Company, 1923, 1923
Used
Hardcover
Seller: Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
With illustrations. Very good green boards, illustrated with color paste-on Big Top photograph. With clean text. Nicely illustrated with vintage black and white photographs. Seller Inventory # 57168
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UNDER THE BIG TOP
Published by
Little, Brown
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Smokey Mountain Bookman, Franklin, NC, U.S.A.
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Cooper, Courtney Ryley. UNDER THE BIG TOP. Boston: Little, Brown and Company 1923. FIRST EDITION. Full page frontispiece plus internal fullpage illustrations. 238pp, 8vo (5 3/8" wide x 8 1/8" tall). Orange imprint with colored illustration applicque on the front cover. Green cloth(hardcover). Protected in a removeable, clear archival cover. Interior pages lightly toned. Exterior worn. Unmarked, clean & tightly bound. Generallyin good condition. (JO-F). Seller Inventory # W5304
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Under the Big Top
Published by
Little, Brown, and Company, 1925
Used
Hardcover
Seller: Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller, New Castle, CO, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hard cover. Condition: Like New. Some light rubbing at corner tips and spine, one page corner has been turned; else in Near Fine condition. Courtney Ryley Cooper (October 31, 1886 ? September 29, 1940) was an American circus performer, publicist and writer. He was an expert on circuses, and was the chief publicist for Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circus at the time of his death. Seller Inventory # SKU2010021230
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