Struggles and Triumphs, or, Forty Year’s Recollections of P.T. Barnum
Hartford, CCT: J.B. Burr and Company, 1870. First Edition. Hardcover, Rebacked, in Red Leather. Book is tight, square. Book is rebacked with leather. Book is Very Good; wear at tips, slight sunfading to boards; rubbing to boards; scattered foxing to endpapers. No DJ. Brown cloth boards with faded gilt Barnum's signature on the front board. Sound internal hinges with no breaks or splits. Frontisphoto present with tissue guard. 780 pp 8vo. Written by Barnum himself, he describes how he went from being involved with traveling circuses to owning and running a museum as well as the tribulations of managing the museum once he acquired it. A clean presentable copy of a historical first edition. Very Good / N/A. Item #649
Price: $75.00