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PT Barnum's Struggles & Triumphs or Forty Years Recollections of PT Barnum: Welcome to our highly-anticipated auction featuring an extraordinarily significant historical artifact - an exceptionally rare copy of "Struggles and Triumphs: Forty Years' Recollections of P.T. Barnu

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BARNUM, Phineas Taylor. P.T. Barnum Autograph and: BARNUM, Phineas Taylor. P.T. Barnum Autograph and Framed Display. A clipped signature of the famed impresario and circus owner, mounted in a metal frame with a handmade collage of later circus images.

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P.T. Barnum's Circus Museum and Menagerie.: Barnum, P.T. (Phineas Taylor) and Sarah Burke. P.T. Barnum's Circus Museum and Menagerie. New York: White & Allen, 1888. First edition. Cloth-backed color lithographed covers. Stunning color lithograp

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Seven CDVs of P.T. Barnum.: Barnum, P.T. (Phineas Taylor). Seven CDVs of P.T. Barnum. V.p., 1860s—90s. Including half- and full-length portraits of Barnum; "Barnum's Dream" (depicting Joice Heth, Fee-Jee Mermaid, Tom Thumb, an

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P.T. Barnum's Advance Courier 1871.: Barnum, P.T. (Phineas Taylor). P.T. Barnum's Advance Courier 1871. New York: Wynkoop & Hallenbeck, 1871. Newsprint courier, illustrated with engravings, including double-page pictorial center spread.

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Cabinet Photo of P.T. Barnum.: Barnum, P.T. (Phineas Taylor). Cabinet Photo of P.T. Barnum. Union Square, N.Y.: Rockwood, ca. 1880s. Sepia bust portrait on original studio mount, gilt imprinted signature of Barnum. 6 1/2 x 4 1/4".

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Barnum,P.T. 1881 Autogragh Letter Signed: Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810 â€“1891) was an American showman, businessman, and politician, remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and founding the Barnum & Bailey Circus (1871â€“2017) wi

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P.T. Barnum "Lion Jack", 1st Edition: Phineas Taylor Barnum (American, 1810-1891), "Lion Jack." Published by G. W. Carleton & Co., 1877, 1st edition, 1st printing. Sextodecimo, orange board cover with gilt lettering to spine. Approx: 7.25

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SIDESHOW, FREAK AND ODDITY BOOKS: SHOCKED AND AMAZED BY JAMES TAYLOR, FREAKS-GEEKS & STRANGE GIRLS - SIDESHOW BANNER ILLUSTRATED, STRUGGLES AND TRIUMPHS OF A MODERN DAY SHOWMAN BY WARD HALL, AND A HALL & CHRIST WONDERCADE BROCHURE.

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Greatest Showman P. T. Barnum Supports Natural History: Barnum Phineas Greatest Showman P. T. Barnum Supports Natural History Education and His Shows P. T. BARNUM, Illustrated and Descriptive History of the Animals Contained in Barnum & Van Amburgh's Museu

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The World of Phineas T. Barnum.: [Brady, Matthew] The World of Phineas T. Barnum. Time-Life Books, 1977. Limited to 5,000 numbered copies; this being 1168. A portfolio in a silk-covered clamshell box with eight photographs in folders

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Circus Book Lot, P.T. Barnum 1888: Circus Book Lot, 1.Circus A Girl's Own Story Of Life Under the "Big Top" by Betty Boyd Bell2. Amateur Circus Life, Ernest Balch3. The Story Of Mr. Circus, CHarles Y. Hunt, Sr. as told to John C. Clout

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9 MacKenzie Childs Champagn Goblets in Circus Everydae: 9 MacKenzie Childs glass champagne saucers or sherbet goblets in Circus Everydae. Hand painted green and purple stripes to the top rim with a black and white checkered base. Large gold polka dots to t

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6 MacKenzie Childs Glass Tumblers in Circus Garland: 6 MacKenzie Childs glass octagonal lobed 5 inch tumblers in Circus Garland Pink. Pastel pink polka dots to the exterior with florals and stripes to the base. Gilt accents to the rims. Original MacKenz

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BARNUM & BAILEY CIRCUS POSTER - JUPITER BALLOON HORSE: AUTHENTIC, ORIGINAL, ONE SHEET, STROBRIDGE LITHO, 1909. THE BARNUM & BAILEY LATEST AND GREATEST THRILLER - THE BALLOON HORSE, JUPITER, IN HIS SENSATIONAL ASCENSION ACT WITH A GORGEOUS PYROTECHNIC DISP

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BARNUM & BAILEY CIRCUS POSTER - DANCING ELEPHANTS: AUTHENTIC, ORIGINAL, ONE SHEET, STROBRIDGE LITHO, 1889. A VERY SCARCE EXAMPLE, P.T. BARNUM'S GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH, J.A. BAILEY. THE BIGGEST & WISEST HERD OF DANCING TRICK ELEPHANTS, EXECUTING A BALL

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BARNUM, Phineas Taylor. Struggles and Triumphs: or, Forty Years’ Recollections of P.T. Barnum [with Autograph Note Signed]. Buffalo: Courier Company, 1877. With a laid in SIGNED slip of thin paper, “One should enclose an envelope addressed/P.T. Barnum” (2 7/8 x 4 ¾”); and an early (ca. 1855?) ephemeral announcement for P.T. Barnum’s “News from the Clouds,” Prof. Donaldson’s balloon ascension at the Great Roman Hippodrome, New York (5 x 3”), on thin paper. Publisher’s cloth. 12mo. Illustrated with a steel-engraved frontispiece and full-page illustrations. 772pp. Shelfworn, shaken.

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