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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.