Need the title or author of series of novels re a traveling circus. Published 25-30 years ago.?

I think it may be the Spangle trilogy by Gary Jennings. It seems to match your description pretty well.

Clive Barker's Bad Moon books are about forty years old

http://www.badmoonbooks.com/product.php?productid=...

"Maximillian Bacchus is the ringmaster, ruler, guide and owner of what he

considers the greatest show in the world. Traveling with a Crocodile

named Malachi, a trapeze girl named Ophelia, a strong mane they call

Hero, which is short for Hieronymus a clown named Domingo de Ybarrondo,

who paints in a wagon pulled by a giant “Ibis bird,” the troupe wanders

from adventure to adventure with mythic aplomb.

From the first story, in which Indigo Murphy, the best bird handler in

the world leaves the show to join in matrimony with the Duke Lorenzo de

Medici, to the fabled court of Kubla Khan, the magic never stops. You

will meet a young apple thief named Angelo with magic eyes, and an

orang-outang named Bathsheba, and a host of other amazing characters

with names and personas cut like a patchwork quilt from the mythologies

and dreams of the world.

Though written forty years ago, these pages are littered with the same

magical side steps that have always been woven into Clive Barker’s

fiction. Worlds not quit our own, and yet so real they ring with truth

and leave you wishing you could step from your mundane life into that

other place – into those caves of ice – if only long enough to catch

Maximillian’s"

The Deptford Trilogy by Canadian author Robertson Davies comes pretty close.

The books, including the Manticore, are very brilliantly written and I recommend them highly.

It revolves around a young boy who runs away to the circus and ends up becoming a master magician.

nut cracker is the title of traveling circus and the author is Dianne M. Buxton

this is true because i have read that story u need to know..............

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