1873 PT Barnum Circus Autobiography Struggles & Triumphs Illustrated Jenny Lind



Phineas Taylor Barnum is remembered primarily for the founding of the Barnum and Bailey Circus, but he was also a writer, politician, businessman and showman, most explicitly shown in the most recent film The Greatest Showman. This autobiographical work is Barnums account of his experiences, but as was known about Barnum, he often exaggerated or expounded on stories he told to further their entertainment value, which we can assume happens here in his autobiographical work often called “Dishonest truthfulness” (Reading).



This 1873 edition of Barnums autobiography was published under the title Struggles and Triumphs and features impressive, full-page wood engravings of many of Barnums circus acts.



Item number: #30197

Price: $499



BARNUM, Phineas Taylor



Struggles and triumphs, or, Forty years recollection of P.T. Barnum



Buffalo: Warren, Johnson, 1873.



Details:

Collation: Complete with all pages

vii, [2], 14-838, [2]

33 woodcut plates

References: Amy Reading, Taylor and Francis

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure

Brown cloth

Size: ~8in X 5.25in (20cm x 13cm)



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