Plowden, Gene

Merle Evans: Maestro of the Circus

Miami, Florida: E. A. Seemann Pub, 1971. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine Hardcover in a Near Fine Dust Jacket.

Red Cloth with spine titles; The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Minimal shelf handling wear. 8vo; 8.75 inches tall; 154 pages; fully illustrated with b/w photographs. The Dust Jacket is with price and is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve has minor darkening of the white of the jacket.

SIGNED with an inscription by the author.

Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #014367
ISBN: 0912458046

Merle Evans was a cornet player and circus band conductor who conducted the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus for fifty years. He was known as the "Toscanini of the Big Top." Evans was inducted into the American Bandmasters Association in 1947 and the International Circus Hall of Fame in 1975.

Price: $45.00