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Phineas Taylor Barnum is remembered primarily for the founding of the Barnum and Bailey Circus, but he was also a writer, politician, businessman and showman, most explicitly shown in the most recent film ‘The Greatest Showman’. This autobiographical work is Barnum’s account of his experiences, but as was known about Barnum, he often exaggerated or expounded on stories he told to further their entertainment value, which we can assume happens here in his autobiographical work often called “Dishonest truthfulness” (Reading).



This 1884 edition of P T Barnum’s ‘Struggles and Triumphs’ was purchased at the Barnum and Bailey Circus in 1884. It has colorful illustrations throughout with additional biographical stories written in by P.T. Barnum.



Item number: #5282

Price: $350



BARNUM, Phineas Taylor



Struggles and triumphs; or, Fifty years' recollections of P.T. Barnum,



Buffalo, N.Y., Courier Company, 1884.



Details:

Collation: Complete with all pages

[xii], 346p

Illustrated throughout, portrait

Binding: Cloth; tight and secure

References: Amy Reading, Taylor and Francis

Language: English

Size: ~8in X 5in (20cm x 12.5cm)



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