Struggles and Triumphs; or, Forty Years' Recollections. Author's Edition. Revised, Enlarged, Newly Illustrated and Written up to Date, 1874, by the Author.
by Barnum, P. T
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- Hardcover
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- Very Good +/No Jacket
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About This Item
Buffalo, N.Y.: Warren, Johnson & Co., 1874 Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. Revised Edition. Thick 8vo. 874 pp, b&w tissue-protected frontis, introductory, preface, list of 33 b&w illustrations, 46 Chapters;appendix: I. rest only found in action; II. a remarkable campaign; III. at home and abroad; IV. among my friends and neighbors (written up to July 25, 1874); V. Hippodromical and Hymeneal. Revised, Enlarged and Updated by the Author, 1874. Minor edge wear with moderately age-toned text block edges, slight foxing to endpapers and margins of a few pages, else, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Brown-pebbled cloth with decorative-stamped borders and floral paterns on boards, and gilt portrait and lettering to spine..
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001639
- Title
- Struggles and Triumphs; or, Forty Years' Recollections. Author's Edition. Revised, Enlarged, Newly Illustrated and Written up to Date, 1874, by the Author.
- Author
- Barnum, P. T
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Revised Edition
- Publisher
- Warren, Johnson & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Buffalo, N.Y.
- Date Published
- 1874
- Keywords
- BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY AMRICAN SHOWMAN AND POLITICIAN BUSINESSMAN BARNUM P. T. (Phineas Taylor, 1810-1891) MEMOIR RECOLLECTIONS
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- BIOGRAPHY;
- Size
- Thick 8vo
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