A rare find of this very popular collectible. Don't miss this great opportunity to pick up a very cheap copy.
This intimate biography gives a fascinating peep behind the scenes in the long history of one of the oldest travelling showpeople families - the Corrigans, whose ancestors, the Welsh's were travelling showpeople even before the days of the side stalls. It was they who, realising the people needed some other attraction while waiting to have a ride on the ponies (the forerunners of the roundabouts), made toffee and sold it on a stall, then introduced coconuts on pegs. If the customer, throwing a small shallalee knocked a nut off he won a coconut, a cigar, or a mug of hazelnuts. From these two grew the host of varied side stalls we see on fairgrounds today. Through the years up to the present day we have a peep into the ups and downs the good times and the bad times (when they gave rides for jam jars); the way they and all travelling showpeople were eyed with suspicion, expecially by the police, but how with their honest to goodness integrity they came out tops in almost every encounter, and now, although not travelling but still showpeople, the name of Corrigan is just as highly esteemed and respected as when Joseph Michael Corrigan was travelling the fairs.
This 112 page hardcover is illustrated with black and white photographs. This book is ex-library and as such has all the usual stamps and stickers internally and externally. The dustjacket has some light creases to edges and a tiny blue mark at bottom edge of front cover. Internally there is a moisture mark to edge of first three pages, but it is otherwise in a very good, tight, clean condition. This book has had very little use and there are none of the usual marks so often associated with ex-library books.
This is a large heavy book and overseas customers should email me for a postage quote before bidding.
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