Struggles and Triumphs: or, The Life of P. T. Barnum [Volumes I & II, in slipcase] 1927 edited by George S. Bryan

Title: Struggles and Triumphs: or, The Life of P. T. Barnum [Volumes I & II, in slipcase]

Author: P. T. Barnum / Edited, with an Introduction, by George S. Bryan

Description: Two volumes in the scarce slipcase. Brown cloth. Titles on spines a bit dull. A couple small spots of soiling to front endpapers of first volume; short gift inscriptions on front free endpapers of both volumes, else clean and unmarked. 49 illustrated plates, including frontispieces. pp. lxvi + 418, (419)-879.

Red card slipcase with paper labels on three sides, with the front featuring a faux-title page with a caricature of Barnum as a Hum-Bug. Slipcase is intact and shows some moderate scuffing and wear.

This 1927 Knopf edition was based on three original works: The Life of P. T. Barnum Written by Himself (New York, 1855), Struggles and Triumphs; or Forty Years' Recollections of P. T. Barnum (Hartford, 1869), and the condensed version of Struggles and Triumphs (Buffalo, 1889), and is supplemented with Mrs. Barnum's ''The Last Chapter''. In addition, it provides a detailed 66-page introduction (with a publishing history of the autobiography) and a five-page bibliography.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Slipcase Condition: Good+

Publisher: Alfred A Knopf
Place: New York
Year: 1927

Keywords: autobiography, biogrpahy, showmen, Ringling Bros, Barnum & Bailey, General Tom Thumb,