Struggles and Triumphs; or, Forty Years’ Recollections of P. T. Barnum.

BARNUM, P.T.

$750.00

Item Number: 146589

Buffalo: The Courier Company, 1889.

Final and most complete edition of this utterly engaging autobiography. Octavo, bound in full deluxe morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, gilt ruled borders to the front and rear panel with facsimile signature in gilt to the front panel, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Phineas T. Barnum, 42 black and white illustrations, many of which are by True Williams, the famed illustrator of ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.’ In very good condition with some rubbing. An exceptional example.

Master of promotion and entertainment, Phineas Taylor Barnum was a 19th-century American showman and businessman, best known for founding the Barnum & Bailey Circus, often billed as 'The Greatest Show on Earth.' Although his methods were often criticized for their sensationalism and exploitation, Barnum's knack for capturing the public's attention made him one of the most successful showmen of his time.