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• Circus -- Juvenile poetry
• Circus -- Periodicals
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• Circuses

• Circus Life and Circus Celebrities (London: Tinsley Bros., 1875), by Thomas Frost (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Wizard of Karres (included on a Baen CD image; c2004), by Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint, and Dave Freer
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 196 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 195 MB
• The Secret Tomb (New York: The Macaulay Co., c1923), by Maurice Leblanc, illust. by George W. Gage
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Circus Day (Akron et al.: Saalfield Pub. Co, 1903), by George Ade, illust. by John T. McCutcheon (illustrated HTML and page images at Indiana)
• The Crimson Flash (Chicago: Reilly and Lee Co., c1922), by Roy J. Snell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• El Marquesito en el Circo (in Spanish; Madrid: Calpe, c1924), by Ramón Gómez de la Serna, illust. by Rafael Barradas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Leo the Circus Boy: or, Life Under the Great White Canvas (published under "Ralph Bonehill" pseudonym; Chicago: M. A. Donohue and Co., c1897), by Edward Stratemeyer (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• Mr. Stubbs's Brother: A Sequel to "Toby Tyler" (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1882), by James Otis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mr. Stubbs's Brother: A Sequel to "Toby Tyler" (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1910), by James Otis (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Toby Tyler: or, Ten Weeks With a Circus (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1909), by James Otis
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Doctor Dolittle's Circus (1924), by Hugh Lofting
  • illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • text at Gutenberg Australia
• Peter Rabbit at the Circus (New York: Cupples and Leon Co., ca. 1921), by Alma Hudson, illust. by Richard Hudson (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Barnum and Jumbo's ABC (London and New York: F. Warne, ca. 1882) (page images at Princeton)

• The Circus Procession (New York: McLoughlin Bros., c1888)
  • page images at LOC
  • Gutenberg text and page images
• The Wonderful Clownie Circus (Chicago: Magill-Weinsheimer Co., c1917), by George O. Butler (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)

• The Bandwagon (partial serial archives)

• Last of the Great Scouts: The Life Story of William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill", by Helen Cody Wetmore (Gutenberg text)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Entertainments for Home, Church and School, by Frederica Seeger, ed. by Theodore Waters (Gutenberg text)
• Wings and the Child: or, The Building of Magic Cities (New York and London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913), by E. Nesbit, illust. by George Barraud (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Healthful Sports for Boys, by A. R. Calhoun (Gutenberg text)
• Healthful Sports for Boys (New York: Christian herald Bible house, c1910), by A. R. Calhoun, ed. by Theodore Waters
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Oracles From the Poets: A Fanciful Diversion for the Drawing-Room (New York and London: Wiley and Putnam, 1845), ed. by Caroline Howard Gilman
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Oracles from the Poets: A Fanciful Diversion for the Drawing-Room (New York and London: J. Wiley, 1848), ed. by Caroline Howard Gilman (page images at MOA)
• Oracles from the Poets: A Fanciful Diversion for the Drawing-Room (New York: Clark, Austin and Smith, 1854), ed. by Caroline Howard Gilman
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• What Shall We Do Now? Five Hundred Games and Pastimes (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1907), contrib. by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Children and Gardens (London: Offices of "Country life", Ltd.; New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1908), by Gertrude Jekyll
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Old English Sports, Pastimes and Customs (c1891), by P. H. Ditchfield (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Rollo at Play: or, Safe Amusements (new revised edition; Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Co., c1855), by Jacob Abbott (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Ethel Morton at Rose House (Cleveland and New York: World Syndicate Pub. Co., 1915), by Mabell S. C. Smith (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Flight of Pony Baker: A Boy's Town Story (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1902), by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Tattine, by Ruth Ogden (Gutenberg text)
• Tattine (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co.; London: E. Nister, ca. 1898), by Ruth Ogden (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Every Boy's Book of Sport and Pastime (London et al.: G. Routledge and Sons, 1897), by Professor Hoffmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Girl's Own Book (18th edition, entirely re-edited; London: W. Tegg and Co., 1858), by Lydia Maria Child, ed. by Clara de Chatelain
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Popular Amusements: An Appeal to Methodists, In Regard to the Evils of Card-Playing, Billiards, Dancing, Theatre-Going, Etc., by Hiram Mattison (page images at MOA)

• Popular Amusements (Cincinnati: Jennings and Pye; New York: Eaton and Mains, c1869), by J. T. Crane (HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org)
• Popular Amusements (Cincinnati: Hitchcock and Walden; New York: Carlton and Lanahan, 1870), by J. T. Crane (page images at MOA)
• Tired Church Members, by Anna Bartlett Warner (Gutenberg text)

• Recreation and Amusement Among Negroes in Washington, D.C.: A Sociological Analysis of the Negro in an Urban Environment (Washington: Howard University Press, 1927), by William Henry Jones (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Witmark Amateur Minstrel Guide and Burnt Cork Encyclopedia (revised edition, c1905), by Frank Dumont (page images at HathiTrust)
• Light Opera Production, for School and Community (Philadelphia: T. Presser Co., c1929), by Gwynne Burrows (page images at HathiTrust)

• Broken Words: A Fifth Century of Charades (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• A Century of Charades (1894), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• More Charades (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• Open Sesame: One Hundred Answers in Rhyme to William Bellamy's Century of Charades (Boston: Joseph Knight Company, 1896), by Harlan Hoge Ballard (PDF at djm.cc)
• A Second Century of Charades (1896), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• A Third Century of Charades (1904), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)

• Sartorial Fandom: Fashion, Beauty Culture, and Identity (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), ed. by Elizabeth Affuso and Suzanne Scott (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• American Clown: Athletic Dance for Men or Boys (second edition, 1927), by George Martin Caskey (frame-dependent page images at sc.edu)
• The Art of Dancing: Its Theory and Practice, by F. Leslie Clendenen (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Clendenen's Treatise on Elementary and Classical Dancing, by F. Leslie Clendenen (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Course of Instruction in Dancing and Aesthetic Development of the Body, by L. F. Segaldo (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Dances of To-Day, by Albert W. Newman (HTML and page images at LOC)
• The Danciad, by Thomas Wilson (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Dancing, As a Means of Physical Education, by Mrs. Alfred Webster (HTML and page images at LOC)
• How to Dance the Revived Ancient Dances, by Ardern Holt (HTML and page images at LOC)
• The Lure of the Dance (Los Angeles: T. A. Faulkner, c1916), by Thomas A. Faulkner
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML and page images at LOC
• Public Dance Halls: Their Regulation and Place in the Recreation of Adolescents, by Ella Gardner (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Sketches Relative to the History and Theory, but More Especially to the Practice of Dancing, by Francis Peacock (HTML and page images at LOC)
• The Social Dance, by R. A. Adams (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Stage and Fancy Dancing, by F. C. Nott (HTML and page images at LOC)
• The Tango and Other Up-to-Date Dances, by J. S. Hopkins (HTML and page images at LOC)
• The Terpsichorean Monitor, by William E. Greene (HTML and page images at LOC)
• "Tips to Dancers," Good Manners for Ballroom and Dance Hall, by Vivian Persis Dewey (HTML and page images at LOC)
• A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Dancing, by James P. Cassidy (HTML and page images at LOC)
• A Treatise on the Use and Peculiar Advantages of Dancing and Exercises, Considered as a Means of Refinement and Physical Development, by Francis Mason (page images and partial HTML at LOC)
• Letters on the Theatre and the Dance (New York: The Polychrome Corp., 1942), by Lasar Galpern (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dancing at Home and Abroad, by C. H. Cleveland (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Dancing, Beauty, and Games (London: A. L. Humphreys, 1913), by Constance Stewart-Richardson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

More items available under broader and related terms at left.