Sale 686: Americana - Yosemite - Travel & Exploration - World History - Cartography (#686) 10/24/2019 11:00 AM PDT CLOSED!

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Lot 9 of 382:
Inscribed by P.T. Barnum to his niece  

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$480
Estimate:
$800 - $1,200

Title:
Struggles and Triumphs: or, Forty Years' Recollections

Author:
Barnum, P.T.

Place:
Buffalo

Publisher:
The Courier Company

Date:
1882

Description:

viii, [13]-785 pp. Illustrated (8vo) rebound in modern brown morocco-backed marbled paper-covered boards, all edges marbled, fresh endpapers. The Author's Edition.

Autobiography of the famed master showman and impresario. This copy inscribed "To My Niece / Mrs. Sarah M. Bailey / With kind regards P.T. Barnum / Waldemere / Bridgeport Conn. April 4th 1882". Waldemere was P.T. Barnum's third mansion. 


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Condition:
Frontispiece and inscribed flyleaf repaired, toned patches to frontispiece and title page, leaves mildly toned; near fine.


 
Item number:
305860
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