[Rarebooks] FS: INSCRIBED P. T. Barnum in Presentation Binding, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $1300 NET

BARNUM, P. T. STRUGGLES AND TRIUMPHS; OR, SIXTY YEARS' RECOLLECTIONS. 
Buffalo: Courier Company, 1889. Early Edition. 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 leather 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. Mallory was one of 
the founders of Wheeler & Wilson of Bridgeport, manufacturer of sewing 
machines, later purchased by Singer. Mallory's sons built the Madison 
Square Theatre in 1879, known as the coziest and prettiest house in New 
York. The building was demolished in 1908. Fine. (#008507)        $2,000.00

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