The Circus of Dr. Lao

Overview:

  • Title: The Circus of Dr. Lao
  • Author: Charles G. Finney
  • Year: 1968
  • Publisher: Compass / Viking
  • Price: $1.25
  • Pages: 159
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: The Circus of Dr. Lao
  • Notes:
    • copyright page "Viking Compass Edition"; first 1961
    • -- "Fourth printing June 1968"
    • spine top "C82"
    • back cover lower right, occluded by library sticker, shows "S [...] 0082-5" (probable SBN)
    • front cover lower left, legible thru sticker, one price only
    • "with additional interpretations by Boris Artzybasheff" per front cover ("drawings by [B.A.]" per title page)
    • 6 one-page and 1 two-page ill., same style as cover, signed and dated "35"; 1 small ill. p[160]
    • novel spans pp 7-140; notes "The Catalogue" pp 141-59 cover Male characters, Female characters, Child characters, Animals, Gods and goddesses, Cities, Statuettes [...], "The Questions and Contradictions and Obscurities", Foodstuffs