House of Deception - Carnival & Sideshow History Books by Category

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House of Deception Library: On Collecting Oddities

Author	Title	Publication Year	Publisher
Carmichael, Bill	Incredible Collectors, Weird Antiques and Odd Hobbies	1971	Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Impey, Oliver; MacGregor, Arthur	The Origins of Museums The Cabinet of Curiosities in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Europe	2001	House of Stratus, N. Yorkshire, UK
Pomian, Krzysztof	Collectors and Curiosities: Paris and Venice, 1500-1800	1991	Polity, Cambridge, UK
Purcell, Rosamond Wolff; Gould, Stephen J.	Finders, Keepers: Eight Collectors	1992	Norton, New York
Stewart, Susan A.	On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection	2005	Duke University Press, Durham, NC
Weschler, Lawrence	Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder	1996	Vintage, New York

House of Deception Library: Carnival & Sideshow in Art and Literature

Author	Title	Publication Year	Publisher
Barth, Myles; Siegel, Alan	Step Right This Way: The Photographs of Edward J. Kelty	2002	Barnes & Noble, New York
Darrah, William C.	Cartes de Visite in Nineteenth Century Photography	1981	W.C. Darrah, Gettysburg, PA
Fraley, Tobin	The Great American Carousel: A Century of Master Craftsmanship	1994	Chronicle, San Francisco
Fraley, Tobin; Sinick, Gary	The Carousel Animal	1987	Chronicle, San Francisco
Gustafson, Donna	Images from the World Between: The Circus in Twentieth-Century American Art	2001	MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
Hammer, Carl; Bosker, Gideon	Freak Show: Sideshow Banner Art	1996	Chronicle, San Francisco
Hyman, Timothy; Malbert, Roger	Carnivalesque (National Touring Exhibition)	2000	Hayward Gallery, London
Johnson, Fred G.	Fred G. Johnson: Sideshow Banners	1989	State of Illinois Art Gallery, Chicago
Johnson, Randy; Meah, Johnny; Secreto, Jim; Varndell, Teddy	Freaks, Geeks and Strange Girls: Sideshow Banners of the Great American Midway	2000	Hardy Marks, Honolulu
Knaebel, Nathaniel (ed)	Step Right Up: Stories of Carnivals, Sideshows, and the Circus	2004	Carroll & Graf, New York
Meiselas, Susan	Carnival Strippers	2003	Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Steadman, Ralph	Tales of the Weirrd	2002	Firefly, Ontario
Vita, Tricia	Johnny Meah [Raw Vision: Outsider Art, Art Brut, Folk Art]	2005	Raw Vision, London
Weedon, Geoff; Ward, Richard	Fairground Art	2003	New Cavendish, London
Wilson, Gahan	The Big Book of Freaks	1996	Paradox, New York

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Here you will find the books from the House of Deception Carnival & Sideshow Library listed by category.

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1. Sideshow History, Attractions and Performers

The eleven categories are:

1. Sideshow History, Attractions, & Performers

2. Sideshow History, Attractions, & Performers (Pictorial Emphasis)

3. P. T. Barnum and the Dime Museum

4. History of the Wild West Show

5. History of the Medicine Show

6. Sideshow Academic: Anatomy, Disability, Natural History, Criticism

7. Sideshow Academic: Myths and Monsters

8. On Collecting Oddities

9. Carnivals and Sideshows in Art and Literature

10. Freaks in Film

11. Carnival Games

Carnival & Sideshow History Books
By Category

2. Sideshow History, Attractions and Performers (Pictorial Emphasis)

3. P. T. Barnum and the Dime Museum

4. History of The Wild West Show

5. History of the Medicine Show

6. Sideshow Academic: Anatomy, Disability,
Natural History, Criticism

7. Sideshow Academic: Myths and Monsters

8. On Collecting Oddities

9. Carnival & Sideshow in Art and Literature

10. Freaks in Film

11. Carnival Games

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House of Deception Library: Sideshow History, Attractions, & Performers (Pictorial Emphasis)

Author	Title	Publisher	Publication Year
	Freaks of Nature	Red Lion, Canoga Park, CA	1978
Barth, Myles; Siegel, Alan	Step Right This Way: The Photographs of Edward J. Kelty	Barnes & Noble, New York	2002
Brouws, Jeff; Caron, Bruce	Inside the Live Reptile Tent: The Twilight World of the Carnival Midway	Chronicle, San Francisco	2001
Dahlinger, Fred	Circus World Museum Presents Show Trains of the 20th Century	Iconografix, Hudson, WI	2000
Fish, Charles	Blue Ribbons and Burlesque: A Book of Country Fairs	Countryman, Woodstock, VT	1998
Fraley, Tobin	The Great American Carousel: A Century of Master Craftsmanship	Chronicle, San Francisco	1994
Fraley, Tobin; Sinick, Gary	The Carousel Animal	Chronicle, San Francisco	1987
Fried, Frederick; Fried, Mary	America's Forgotten Folk Arts	Pantheon, New York	1978
Gilden, Bruce	Coney Island	Trebruk/Magnum Photos, New York	2002
Hunter, Virginia Lee; Fenton, Peter	Carny: Americana on the Midway	Umbrage Editions, New York	2007
Katz, Jimmy; Katz, Dena	World Of Wonders	powerHouse, Brooklyn, NY	2009
Lee, Polly Jae	Giant: The Pictorial History of the Human Colossus	A. S. Barnes, South Brunswick	1970
Levenson, Randal; Gray, Spalding	In Search of the Monkey Girl	Aperture, New York	1982
Lifson, Robert; Mastro, William	Enter the Sideshow	authors	1983
Mark, Mary Ellen	Indian Circus	Chronicle, San Francisco	1993
McCarry, John; Olson, Randy	County Fairs: Where America Meets [Chapter 5, "The Midway"]	National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C.	1997
Meiselas, Susan	Carnival Strippers	Whitney Museum of American Art, New York	2003
Mitchell, Michael	Monsters: Human Freaks in America's Gilded Age: The Photographs of Chas Eisenmann	ECW, Toronto	2002
Rhodes, Bill	Circus and Carnival Trucks: 1923-2000 Photo Archive	Iconografix, Hudson, WI	2001
Rusid, Max	Side Show: Max Rusid's Photo Album of Human Oddities	Amjon, New York	1975
Schneider, Hanspeter	The Last Sideshow	Dazed, London	2004
Sloan, Mark	Wild, Weird, and Wonderful: The American Circus Circa 1910 as seen by F. W. Glasier	Quantuck Lane, New York	2002
Sloan, Mark	Hoaxes, Humbugs & Spectacles	Villard, New York	1990
Stein, Harvey	Coney Island	W.W. Norton, New York	1998
Stone, Sir Benjamin	Sir Benjamin Stone's Pictures: Records of National Life and History	Cassell, London	1906
Stone, Sir Benjamin	Jolly Old England's Festivals, Ceremonies and Customs: Sir Benjamin Stone's Revealing Camera	Allborough, Cambridge, UK	1992
Ware, Michael E.	Historic Fairground Scenes	Moorland, UK	1977
Weedon, Geoff; Ward, Richard	Fairground Art	New Cavendish, London	2003
Worsham, Roger	The Gathering [softcover edition]	Bizarre Bazaar Biz, Sparks, NV	2004
Worsham, Roger	Human Freaks and Oddities, Cards Series #2	Mother Productions, Atwood, CA	1991
Worsham, Roger	Human Freaks and Oddities, Cards Series #3	Mother Productions, Atwood, CA	1992
Worsham, Roger	Human Freaks and Oddities, Cards Series #4	Mother Productions, Atwood, CA	1992
Worsham, Roger	Animal Freaks, Cards Series	Mother Productions, Atwood, CA	1991
Worsham, Roger	The Gathering [hardcover edition]	Bizarre Bazaar Biz, Sparks, NV	2004
Worsham, Roger	Human Freaks and Oddities, Cards Series #1	Mother Productions, Atwood, CA	1991

House of Deception Library: P. T. Barnum and the Dime Museum

Author	Title	Publisher	Publication Year
Adams, Bluford	E Pluribus Barnum: The Great Showman And The Making Of U.S. Popular Culture	Univ Of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis	1997
Andronik, Catherine M.	Prince of Humbugs: A Life of P. T. Barnum	Atheneum, New York	1994
Barnum, P. T.	Life of P.T. Barnum	Redfield, New York	1855
Barnum, P. T.	The Life of P. T. Barnum: Written by Himself	University of Illinois Press, Champaign	2000
Barnum, P. T.	Humbugs of the World	Kessinger, Whitefish, MT	2003
Barnum, P. T.; Bode, Carl (ed.)	Struggles and Triumphs: Or, Forty Years' Recollections of P.T. Barnum	Penguin, New York	1981
Barnum, P.T. (illustrated)	P.T. Barnum's Big Picture Book Of The Humbugs Of The World, Vol 1	Whiz Bang, Key West, FL	2014
Bryan, J.	The World's Greatest Showman: The Life of P.T. Barnum	Random House, New York	1956
Cook, James W. (ed.)	The Colossal P. T. Barnum Reader: Nothing Else Like It In The Universe	University of Illinois Press, Champaign	2005
Dennett, Andrea Stulman	Weird & Wonderful: The Dime Museum in America	New York University Press	1997
Charles River Editors	American Legends: The Life Of P.T. Barnum		2014
Fitzsimons, Raymund	Barnum in London	Bles, London	1969
Fleming, Candace	The Great And Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life Of Showman P. T. Barnum	Schwartz & Wade, New York	2009
Groh, Lynn	P. T. Barnum	Dell, New York	1980
Harris, Neil	Humbug: The Art of P. T. Barnum	University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL	1981
Harris, Neil	Humbug: The Art of P. T. Barnum.	Little Brown, Boston	1973
Kunhardt, Philip B.	P. T. Barnum: America's Greatest Showman	Knopf, New York	1995
Lehman, Eric D.	Becoming Tom Thumb: Charles Stratton, P. T. Barnum, and the Dawn of American Celebrity	Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT	2013
Root, Harvey W.	The Unknown Barnum	Harper, New York	1927
Saxon, Arthur H.	P.T. Barnum: The Legend and the Man	Columbia University Press, New York	1989
Saxon, Arthur H.	Selected Letters of P. T. Barnum	Columbia University Press, New York	1983
Wallace, Irving	The Fabulous Showman: The Life and Times of P. T. Barnum	Alfred A. Knopf, New York	1959
Ware, W. Porter	P.T. Barnum Presents Jenny Lind : The American Tour Of The Swedish Nightingale	Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge	1980

House of Deception Library: Wild West Show

Author	Title	Publisher	Publication Year
Cody, William Frederick	The Life of Buffalo Bill: Or, the Life and Adventures of William F. Cody, As Told by Himself	Narrative, Santa Barbara, CA	2001
Cody, William Frederick	The Life of Hon. William F. Cody Known as Buffalo Bill: An Autobiography	University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln	1978
Collings, Ellsworth	The 101 Ranch	University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK	1986
Delaney, Michelle	Buffalo Bill's Wild West Warriors: A Photographic History By Gertrude Kasebier	Smithsonian, Washington, DC	2007
Enss, Chris	Buffalo Gals: Women of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show	Falcon, San Ramon, CA	2005
Farnum, Allen L.	Pawnee Bill's Historic Wild West: A Photo Documentary of the 1900-1905 Show Tours	Schiffer, Atglen, PA	1992
Fox, Charles Philip; Parkinson, Tom	The Circus in America	Hennessey & Ingalls, Santa Monica, CA	2002
Gallop, Alan	Buffalo Bill's British Wild West	Sutton, Gloucestershire, UK	2001
Havighurst, Walter	Buffalo Bill's Great Wild West Show	Random Library, New York	2000
Kasson, Joy S.	Buffalo Bill's Wild West: Celebrity, Memory, and Popular History	Hill and Wang, New York	2001
McMurtry, Larry	The Colonel and Little Missie: Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, and the Beginnings of Superstardom in America	Simon & Schuster, New York	2005
McNenly, Linda Scarangella	Native Performers in Wild West Shows: From Buffalo Bill to Euro Disney	University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK	2012
Moses, L. G.	Wild West Shows and the Images of American Indians, 1883-1933	University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM	1999
Reddin, Paul	Wild West Shows	University of Illinois Press, Champaign	1999
Russell, Don	Wild West: A History of the Wild West Shows	Univ of Texas Press, Austin, TX	1970
Wallis, Michael	The Real Wild West: The 101 Ranch and the Creation of the American West	St. Martin's Griffin, New York	2000
Warren, Louis S.	Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and the Wild West Show	Knopf, New York	2005
Yost, Nellie Snyder	Buffalo Bill: His Family, Friends, Fame, Failures and Fortunes	Ohio University Press, Athens, OH	1980

House of Deception Library: History of the Medicine Show

Author	Title	Publisher	Publication Year
Agnew, Jeremy	Entertainment In The Old West: Theater, Music, Circuses, Medicine Shows, Prizefighting and Other Popular Amusements	McFarland, Jefferson, NC	2011
Anderson, Ann	Snake Oil, Hustlers and Hambones	McFarland, Jefferson, NC	2005
Armstrong, David; Armstrong, Elizabeth Metzger	The Great American Medicine Show: Being an Illustrated History of Hucksters, Healers, Health Evangelists, and Heroes from Plymouth Rock to the Present	Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey	1991
Fowler, Gene	Mystic Healers & Medicine Shows: Blazing Trails to Wellness in the Old West and Beyond	Ancient City, Sante Fe, NM	1997
Hoyt, Harlowe R.	Town Hall Tonight [Chapter 5, "Fifty Cents a Bottle--For Man or Beast"]	Bramhall House, New York	1955
McNamara, Brooks	Step Right Up: An Illustrated History of the Medicine Show	University Press of Mississippi, Jackson	1995
Stratton, Owen Tully	Medicine Man	University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK	1989

House of Deception Library: Sideshow Academic: Anatomy, Disability, Natural History, Criticism

Author	Title	Publisher	Publication Year
Adams, Rachel	Sideshow U.S.A: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination	University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL	2001
Bogdan, Robert	Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit	University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL	1990
Bondeson, Jan	The Feejee Mermaid and Other Essays in Natural and Unnatural History	Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY	1999
Bondeson, Jan	The Two-Headed Boy, and Other Medical Marvels	Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY	2000
Bondeson, Jan	A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities	W.W. Norton, New York	1999
Buckland, Frances T.	Curiosities of Natural History	Beekman, New York	1975
Burns, Stanley	A Morning's Work: Medical Photographs from the Burns Archive & Collection, 1843-1939	Twin Palms, Sante Fe NM	1998
Dance, Peter S.	Animal Fakes & Frauds	Sampson Low, London	1976
Dreger, Alice Domurat	One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal	Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA	2004
Dreger, Alice Domurat	Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex	Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA	2000
Gonzalez-Crussi, Frank, M.D.	Notes of an Anatomist	Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego, CA	1985
Gould, George M.; Pyle, Walter L.	Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine	Bell, New York	1956
Kohne, Eckart; Ewigleben, Cornelia (eds.)	Gladiators and Caesars: The Power of Spectacle in Ancient Rome	University of California Press, Berkeley	2000
Leroi, Armand Marie	Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body	Viking, New York	2003
Purcell, Rosamond Wolff	Special Cases: Natural Anomalies and Historical Monsters	Chronicle, San Francisco	1997
Purcell, Rosamond Wolff; Gould, Stephen J.	Finders, Keepers: Eight Collectors	Norton, New York	1992
Scientific American Supplement Vol. 65	"Circus and Museum Freaks: Curiosities of Pathology"	Munn, New York	1908
Skal, David J	The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror	Faber & Faber, London	2001
Thomson, Rosemarie Garland	Extraordinary Bodies	Columbia University Press, New York	1997
Thomson, Rosemarie Garland	Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body	New York University Press, New York	1996
Wilson, Dudley Butler	Signs and Portents: Monstrous Births from the Middle Ages to the Age of Enlightenment	Routledge, New York	1993
Worden, Gretchen	Mutter Museum: Of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia	Blast, New York	2002

House of Deception Library: Sideshow Academic: Myths and Monsters

Author	Title	Publisher	Publication Year
Coleman, Loren	Mysterious America: The Ultimate Guide To The Nation's Weirdest Wonders, Strangest Spots, And Creepiest Creatures	Gallery, New York	2007
Coleman, Loren	Bigfoot! : The True Story Of Apes In America	Paraview, New York	2003
Coleman, Loren; Clark, Jerome	Cryptozoology A To Z: The Encyclopedia Of Loch Monsters, Sasquatch, Chupacabras, And Other Authentic Mysteries Of Nature	Simon & Schuster, New York	1999
Coleman, Loren; Huyghe, Patrick	Field Guide To Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents, And Other Mystery Denizens Of The Deep	Tarcher/Penguin, New York	2003
Fiedler, Leslie A	Freaks: Myths and Images of the Secret Self	Simon & Schuster, New York	1979
Friedman, John Block	The Monstrous Races in Medieval Art and Thought	Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY	2000
Godfrey, Linda S.	American Monsters: A History of Monster Lore, Legends, and Sightings in America	Tarcher/Penguin, New York	2014
Grant, John	Monster Mysteries	Chartwell, Secaucus, NJ	1993
Humphries, Barry	Bizarre	Bell, New York	1965
Kappler, Claude	Monstres, démons, et merveilles à la fin du Moyen Age	Payot	1980
Napier, John Russell	Bigfoot	Berkley Medallion, New York	1974
Napier, John Russell	Bigfoot: The Yeti and Sasquatch in Myth and Reality	E P Dutton, New York	1973
Niccoli, Ottavia; Lydia G. Cochrane (trans.)	Prophecy and People in Rennaisance Italy	Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ	1990
Pare, Ambroise; Pallister, Janis L. (trans.)	On Monsters and Marvels	University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL	1995
Patterson, Roger	Do Abominable Snowmen of America Really Exist?	Franklin, Yakima, WA	1966
Purcell, Rosamond Wolff	Special Cases: Natural Anomalies and Historical Monsters	Chronicle, San Francisco	1997
Sanderson, Ivan T.	Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life	Chilton, Philadelphia	1972
Thompson, C. J. S.	Giants, Dwarfs and Other Oddities	Citadel Trade, New York	1989
Thompson, C. J. S.	Mystery and Lore of Monsters	Barnes & Noble, New York	1994
Wilson, Dudley Butler	Signs and Portents: Monstrous Births from the Middle Ages to the Age of Enlightenment	Routledge, New York	1993

House of Deception Library: Carnival Games

Author	Title	Publisher	Publication Year
Bickernicks, Eric	Beat Carnival Games	author, Kindle	2012
Boles, Don	The Midway Showman	Pinchpenny, Atlanta	1967
Boles, Don	The Compleat Pitchman	Pinchpenny, Atlanta	1972
Brill, Aaron K.	A. Brill's Bible of Building Plans and Collection of Much Information Useful to Showman, Carnie, Fairman, and Amusement Park Operator	A. B. Enterprises, Peoria, IL	1976
Connor, J. Hal	Stunts and Features for Carnivals	Eldridge, Franklin, OH	1927
Fox, Theron	How to Make Money With Carnival Games	Pinchpenny, Atlanta	1980
Gowler, Danny	Carnival Games - How They Work and How to Win	author	1997
Gryczan, Matthew L.	Carnival Secrets	Zenith, Royal Oak MI	1988
Hester, Glenn	Carnival Cop	author, Glynn County, GA	2010
Margittay, Richard	Carnival Games: The Perfect Crimes	Xlibris, Bloomington, IN	2009
Margittay, Richard	Carnival Games: $10,000,000,000 Hoodwink Racket: Organized Crime on American Midways	Xlibris, Bloomington, IN	2011
Pachuta, Mike	Carnival Game Secrets	author, Kindle	2011
Richardson, Brian	The Secrets of Amusement Park Games... Revealed!	Silver Star, Houston
Scarne, John	Scarne's Complete Guide to Gambling [Chapter 19, "Carnival, Fair, Bazaar, Arcade, and Amusement Park Games"]	Simon & Schuster, New York	1961
Smith, Lindsay; Walstad, Bruce	Keeping Carnies Honest: Police Officer's Field Guide to Carnival Game Inspections	Street Smart Communications., Littleton, CO	1990
Sorrows, Gene	Carnival Knowledge	Sun, Atlanta, GA	1983
Sorrows, Gene	All About Carnivals	American Federation of Police, N. Miami, FL	1985
Swierczynski, Duane	The Complete Idiot's Guide To Frauds, Scams, and Cons	Alpha, New York	2002
Witter, Bret; Sharkey, Lorelei	Carnival Undercover	Plume, New York	2003

House of Deception Library: Freaks in Film

Author	Title	Publisher	Publication Year
Adrian, Werner	Freaks: Cinema of the Bizarre	Warner, New York	1976
Brett, Mary; Gould, Stevan	Freaks of Sideshow and Film	Schiffer, Atglen, PA	2015
Cox, Stephen	Munchkins of Oz	Cumberland House, Cumberland, TN	2002
Friedman, David	A Youth in Babylon: Confessions of a Trash-Film King	Prometheus, Buffalo, NY	1990
Harmetz, Aljean	The Making of the Wizard of Oz	Hyperion, New York	1998
Hunter, Jack	Inside Teradome: An Illustrated History of Freak Film	Creation, London	1998
Hunter, Jack	Freak Babylon: An Illustrated History of Teratology & Freakshows	Glitterbooks, London	2005

House of Deception Library: Sideshow History, Attractions, & Performers

Author	Title	Publisher	Publication Year
Adams, Judith A.	The American Amusement Park Industry: A History of Technology and Thrills	Twayne, Boston	1991
Alden, William Livingstone	Among the Freaks	Longmans Green, London	1896
Altick, Richard D.	The Shows of London: A Panoramic History of Exhibition, 1600-1862	Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA	1978
American Heritage	"The Fat Man and His Friends" in American Heritage, June, 1966	American Heritage, New York	1966
Audibert, Chris	Biography of Frank William Gaskill [original manuscript]	[unpublished] Audibert Amusement. New York	1989
Baldwin, Samri S.	The Secrets of Mahatma Land Explained	author, New York	1895
Ballantine, Bill	Wild Tigers and Tame Fleas	Rinehart, New York	1958
Barnum Museum	Shocked and Amazed: The World of the Sideshow	Barnum Museum, Bridgeport, CT	1999
Berman, John S.	Portraits of America: Coney Island	Barnes & Noble, New York	2003
Blaine, David	Mysterious Stranger	Villard, New York	2002
Boese, Alex	The Museum of Hoaxes: A Collection of Pranks, Stunts, Deceptions, and Other Wonderful Stories Contrived for the Public from the Middle Ages to the New Millennium	E P Dutton, New York	2002
Bogdan, Robert	Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit	University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL	1990
Boles, Don	Midway Magic	Pinchpenny, Atlanta	1963
Bone, Howard	Side Show: My Life With Geeks, Freaks & Vagabonds in the Carny Trade	Sun Dog, Northville, MI	2001
Bradford, Verner Phillips; Blume, Harvey	Ota Benga: The Pygmy in the Zoo	St. Martin's, New York	1992
Braithwaite, David	Fairground Architecture: The World of Amusement Parks, Carnivals and Fairs	Praeger, New York	1968
Brett, Mary; Gould, Stevan	Freaks of Sideshow and Film	Schiffer, Atglen, PA	2015
Broome, Richard; Jackomos, Alick	Sideshow Alley	Allen & Unwin, St. Leonards, Australia	1998
Carlyon, David	Dan Rice: The Most Famous Man You've Never Heard Of	PublicAffairs, New York	2001
Carrington, Hereward	Sideshow Tricks Explained	Pinchpenny, Atlanta	1973
Carrington, Hereward	Side-Show and Animal Tricks	Sphinx, Kansas City	1913
Carrington, Hereward	Hindu Magic	Sphinx, Kansas City	1913
Carrington, Hereward	Side-Show Tricks Explained (Little Blue Book 1279)	Haldeman-Julius, Girard, KS	no date
Cavin, Lee	There Were Giants on the Earth!	Seville Chronicle, Seville, OH	1970
Chemung County Historical Society	The County Fair Carnival: Where the Midway Meets the Grange	Chemung County Historical Society, Elmira, NY	1992
Chubbuck, Ted	The Sound Of The Jenny	Vantage, New York	1972
Clair, Colin	Human Curiosities	Abelard-Schuman, London	1968
Cook, James W.	The Arts of Deception: Playing With Fraud in the Age of Barnum	Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA	2001
Dadswell, Jack	Hey There Sucker!	Bruce Humphries, Boston	1946
Dance, Peter S.	Animal Fakes & Frauds	Sampson Low, London	1976
Darrah, William C.	Cartes de Visite in Nineteenth Century Photography	W.C. Darrah, Gettysburg, PA	1981
Davis, Janet M.	The Circus Age: Culture and Society Under the American Big Top	University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC	2002
Dennett, Andrea Stulman	Weird & Wonderful: The Dime Museum in America	New York University Press	1997
Denson, Charles	Coney Island: Lost and Found	Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, CA	2002
Drimmer, Frederick	Very Special People: The Struggles, Loves and Triumphs of Human Oddities	Amjon, New York	1973
Drimmer, Frederick	Born Different: Amazing Stories of Very Special People	Bantam Skylark, New York	1991
Dufour, Lou; Kirby, Irwin	Fabulous Years: A Showman's Tales of Carnivals, World's Fairs, and Broadway	Vantage, New York	1977
Fellner, Chris	Freaks! No.1	author	1995
Fenton, Peter	Eyeing the Flash	Simon & Schuster, New York	2005
Fleming, Candace	The Great And Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life Of Showman P. T. Barnum	Schwartz & Wade, New York	2009
Fox, Charles Philip; Parkinson, Tom	The Circus in America	Hennessey & Ingalls, Santa Monica, CA	2002
Frega, Donnalee	Women of Illusion: A Circus Family's History	Palgrave/St. Martin's, New York	2001
Fried, Frederick; Fried, Mary	America's Forgotten Folk Arts	Pantheon, New York	1978
Friedman, David	A Youth in Babylon: Confessions of a Trash-Film King	Prometheus, Buffalo, NY	1990
Friedman, Drew	Drew Friedman's Sideshow Freaks	Blast Books, New York	2011
Frost, Linda	Conjoined Twins In Black And White: The Lives of Millie-Christine McKoy and Daisy and Violet Hilton	University of Wisconsin, Madison	2009
Gangi, Tony	Carny Sideshows: Wierd Wonders of the Midway	Citadel, New York	2010
Geyer, Celesta; Roen, Samuel	Diet or Die: The Dolly Dimples Weight Reducing Plan	Frederick Fell, New York	1968
Gibson, Gregory	Hubert's Freaks: The Rare-Book Dealer, the Times Square Talker, and the Lost Photos Of Diane Arbus	Mariner, Boston	2008
Gonzalez-Crussi, Frank, M.D.	Notes of an Anatomist	Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego, CA	1985
Goodrich, Samuel G.	Curiosities of Human Nature: By the Author of Peter Parley's Tales	Bradbury and Soden, Boston	1843
Gorham, Maurice	Showmen and Suckers: An Excursion on the Crazy Fringe of the Entertainment World	Percival Marshall, London	1951
Graham, Peter W.; Oehlschlaeger, Fritz H.	Articulating the Elephant Man: Joseph Merrick and His Interpreters	Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD	1992
Gregor, Jan T.	Circus of the Scars	Brennan Dalsgard, Seattle, WA	1998
Gresham, William Lindsay	Monster Midway: An Uninhibited Look at the Glittering World of the Carny	Rinehart, New York	1953
Gurney, Gene	America in Wax	Crown, New York	1977
Hahn, Emily	Eve & the Apes	Random House, New York	1988
Hall, Ward	My Very Unusual Friends	author, Gibsonton, FL	1991
Hall, Ward	Struggles and Triumphs of a Modern Day Showman	Carnival Publishers of Sarasota, FL	1981
Hartzman, Marc	American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History's Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers	Tarcher/Penguin, New York	2005
Helfer, Ralph	Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant that Ever Lived	Harper Perennial, New York	1998
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Holland, Charlie	Strange Feats and Clever Turns	Holland & Palmer, London	1998
Holtman, Jerry; Harry Lewiston	Freak Show Man: The Autobiography of Harry Lewiston	Holloway House, Los Angeles, CA	1968
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Jay, Ricky	Extraordinary Exhibitions	Quantuck Lane, New York	2005
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Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus	Route Book, Season of 1953	Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus	1953
Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus	Route Book, Season of 1951	Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus	1951
Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus	Route Book, Season of 1948	Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus	1948
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Sellman, Arthur	Traveling Shows and Roundabouts	Oakwood, Dorset, UK	1975
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W.E. Shepard		Commercial Service	1923
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Wonder Book	The Loves and Lives of the Hilton Sisters	Wonder Book