Circus in Australia: Volume 1: Its Origins & Development to 1856

Circus in Australia: Volume 2: An Index of Show Movements 1833-1969

Circus in Australia: Volume 3: The American Century 1851-1950

Circus in Australia, Vol 7: printed Ephemera, 1833-2007:

Circus in Australia, Vol 13: May Wirth, the Bareback Queen.

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There are a number of books, cards and items of ephemera available which are related to Australiaís circus history. The following books, written or co-authored by Mark St Leon, are available, if not new then secondhand.

Spangles & Sawdust: The Circus in Australia
By Mark St Leon
Melbourne: Greenhouse Publications, 1983

The Silver Road: The Life of Mervyn King, Circus Man By Mark St Leon
Paperback; Illustrations; Ports.
Published: December 1990
Butterfly Books
ISBN: 094733310X

The Wizard of the Wire: The Story of Con Colleano By Mark St Leon
Paperback; Colour, B&W Photographs, Bibliography
220 pages
Published: November 1993
Aboriginal Studies Press
ISBN: 0855752467

Take a Drum & Beat It: The Story of the Astonishing Ashtons By Judy Cannon with Mark St Leon
Paperback
Published: December 1997
Tytherleigh Press
ISBN:0646323342

Children of the Circus: The Australian Experience
By John Ramsland with Mark St Leon
Paperback
Published: December 1993
Butterfly Books
ISBN:0947333630