A unique story of a marvelous career
Subtitle: Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum. : Comprising his boyhood, youth, vicissitudes of early years; his Herculean struggles, brilliant enterprises, astonishing successes, disastrous losses, Napoleonic triumphs; his reception by kings, queens, emperors and nobility everywhere; his genius, wit, generosity, eloquence, Christianity, &c., &c
By: as told by Joel Benton, Esq., author of "Emerson as poet" and various other works, and for nearly thirty years a most intimate friend of the greatest of showmen. ; Elegantly illustrated
Publisher: Edgewood Publishing Company.
Published: 1891
Place of publication: Philadelphia]
Language: eng
Subjects: Dummies (Bookselling); Specimens
Other titles: Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum.
Notes: Salesman's dummy, consisting of title page, prelimiaries, samples pages of text and illustrations, followed by two pages of publisher's description and unnumbered, lined pages for recording subscribers' names. Has additional publisher's information sheet, printed on pink paper, tipped in at end. Sample backstrip mounted on inside of lower cover.