📚 Clowns

30 works · ordered by editions in print

The painted comic: Grimaldi’s legacy, the craft of the gag, and the uncanny reputation that came with the paint.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject clowns in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi	Joseph Grimaldi	1838	23
Clowns	Ezra LeBank	2015	11
Clowns & pantomimes	Maurice Willson Disher	1925	7
The art of clowning	Eli Simon	2009	6
Smiles Are Everywhere	Bernie Warren	2013	6
Monsieur Clown!	Edouard de Perrodil	1889	4
The book of clowns	George Speaight	1980	4
I want to be a clown	Ivan Bulloch	1995	4
Clowning as Social Performance in Colombia	Barnaby King	2016	4
Clown Egg Register	Luke Stephenson	2017	4
The fool and his scepter	William Willeford	1969	3
Clowns	John H. Towsen	1976	3
Bring on the clowns	Beryl Hugill	1980	3
Clown skits for everyone	Happy Jack Feder	1984	3
Open Sesame: Cookie Monster's Blue Book	Jane Brauer	1985	3
Be a clown!	Mark Stolzenberg	1989	3
Crafty clowns	Di Campbell	1990	3
The book of clowns	Felix Sutton	1966	2
How to Be a Clown	Charles Robert Meyer	1977	2
Here come the clowns	Lowell Swortzell	1978	2
How to Be a Compleat Clown	Toby Sanders	1978	2
Clowns	Eugene H. Baker	1980	2
Most Excellent	Katie Roden	1996	2
The most excellent book of how to be a clown	Catherine Perkins	1996	2
Be a Clown	Ron Burgess	2001	2
Palhaços	Mário Fernando Bolognesi	2003	2
The autobiography of a clown	Marcosson, Isaac Frederick	1910	1
Slapstick and Dumbbell	Hiler Harzberg and Arthur Moss	1924	1
The art of clowning	Rayford the Clown.	1959	1
The fool and his sceptre	William Willeford	1969	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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