[Rarebooks] FS: Lovely Inscribed P.T. Barnum Autobiography, price reduced

Charles Agvent chagvent at ptd.net
Thu Jan 14 11:35:27 EST 2010


Price reduced:

BARNUM, P. T. STRUGGLES AND TRIUMPHS; OR, SIXTY YEARS' RECOLLECTIONS. 
Buffalo: Courier Company, 1889. One of several editions of one of the 
most famous American autobiographies by one of the world's most 
sensational entrepreneurs. This is a special copy in a full black 
morocco publisher's presentation binding with gilt decorations on the 
spine and Barnum's gilt signature on the front cover; 360 pages. 
Illustrated with 43 engravings. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the 
author "To my friend & neighbor/George Mallory, Esq./With kind regards 
to all/his tribe/P. T. Barnum" and dated 5 July 1890. Fine. $2,000.00

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