Struggles and Triumphs; or, Forty Years’ Recollections of P. T. Barnum.
"Few men in civil life have had a career more crowded with incident, enterprise, and various intercourse with the world than mine": Struggles and Triumphs; Signed by P.T. Barnum
Struggles and Triumphs; or, Forty Years’ Recollections of P. T. Barnum.
BARNUM, P.T.
$1,600.00
Item Number: 145347
Buffalo: The Courier Company, 1879.
Author’s edition of this utterly engaging autobiography, revised, enlarged, newly illustrated and written up to December 1878 by the author. Duodecimo, original hard-grain cloth with gilt titles and portrait of P.T. Barnum to the spine, blind stamped triple ruled frame with ornamental corners enclosing central quatrefoil device, gray top stain, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Phineas T. Barnum, 33 black and white illustrations, many of which are by True Williams, the famed illustrator of ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.’ Signed by the author on the Publisher’s Note page, ‘”Compliments of P. T. Barnum.” In very good condition with rubbing to the extremities, miniscule closed tear to the top edge of a few pages. Uncommon signed.
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.
