ZORA, LUCIA. EDITED BY COURTNEY RYLEY COOPER - Sawdust and Solitude

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 14.5 cm x 21 cm. Lightly soiled light brown cloth hardcover with red-orange text. Bumping to corners and top and bottom of spine. 9 B/W illustrations.Published March 1928. Gift inscription in pen on front free end paper .Hinge cracked webbing of spine showing through on small title page .Small amount of browning/foxing on first few pages. Red top page block. A scarce circus memoir. Zora was an animal trainer at the Sells-Floto Circus. She was married to Fred Alispaw, the elephant trainer. The circus was a combination of the Floto Dog & Pony Show and the Sells Brothers Circus, and was active in the early twentieth century. Buffalo Bill Cody was part of the circus in 1914-15.. Good .