The Circus, Now Available in Book Form

If you are a lover of circus, there is a book out there, no, there is a tome out there that you need to get your hands on. It's called The Circus 1870s - 1950s and it's awesomness will melt your brain.

You can actually leaf through a part of it here.

And while I was going to write about some of the wonderful subject matter this spectacular book delves into, it looks like the good folks at Taschen are a step ahead of me. They made a promotional video for this exquisite book!

After flipping through the virtual book and the tantalizing video, I bet you're just itching to get a copy, right? Well sadly, this 670 page beast doesn't come cheap. It costs a whopping $200! To be fair, the pages are glossy, often with full page colour images. And it's in English, German and French. I've seen it first hand and it's totally worth it.

But if $200 dollars out of your pocket book just isn't going to happen, there's hope yet. At my local Chapters store I discovered a smaller, though still coffee table sized, version of this book! It's only 385 pages or so and this edition is the English version only. Unfortunately, that means only a third of the stunning photographs, but at $35 cdn, I think I'll get over it.

An added bonus? This smaller edition of the book is currently 30% off!

So now that I've pretty much hosted a small infomercial in honour of this book, I have one final point to make.

Only I can't because my lap top won't read my camera's memory card.

But one day, it will. And then... then you'll see.