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General Tom Thumb
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Title: "Little Gentleman," General Tom Thumb
Place Published: London
Publisher:Thomas Dean and Son
Date Published: [c.1847]
Description:


8 leaves, printed on one side only. First and final leaf pasted inside wrappers. Hand-colored illustrations. 24x16.5 cm (9½x6½") original self-wrappers.



From the publisher's "Grandpapa Easy's" series. A tale of the diminutive American, Charles Sherwood Stratton, exhibited by showman P.T. Barnum as General Tom Thumb. 5 copies located by OCLC, only 2 of which are in the United States (UCLA, Princeton).

Condition
Some wear along spine edge (appears to have been previously bound, perhaps in a sammelband); light foxing and soiling; very good.
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