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[LITTLE PEOPLE] Thirteen Midget and Dwarf “Pitch” Books. Comprising of: History of the World’s Greatest Midgets, Major N.G.W. Winner and Wife. Winona, MN: Jones & Co., [1902]. Pictorial wraps. English and German text. - - Authentic Biographies of Admiral Dot and Major Atom. New York: N.Y. Popular Publishing Co., 1880s. Colored pictorial wrappers (taped). - - Biographical Sketches of Count and Countess Philippe Nicol. Montreal, ca. 1941. Pictorial wraps, plates. - - A Sketch of the Life of Gen. Samuel Littlefinger the Smallest Man in the World. St. Louis: Jno T. & E.T. Ustick, 1870. Wraps with wood-engraved portrait of Littlefinger to lower. 12mo. - - Biographical Sketch of Admiral Dot the Smallest Man in the World. [New York?], ca. 1880. Pictorial wraps bearing wood-engraved image of Dot. Two copies, with variant covers advertising Dot with P.T. Barnum, one bearing Barnum’s portrait on the lower wrapper. - - History of the Little Fairy, Dollie Dutton. N.p.: David Dutton, ca. 1861. Pictorial wrappers. 16mo. - - Biographical Sketch of Gen. Geo. Washinton M. Nutt and The Little Fairy Queen, Miss Belton. Buffalo: Commercial Advertiser Steam Press, 1861. Pictorial wraps, one woodcut illustration. 16mo. Stained. - - The Married Midgets. Philadelphia: Morrell Bros., Printers, ca. 1890. Colored wraps lettered and ruled in black. 16mo. Binding damaged and resewn by hand. - - Sketch of the Life … General Tom Thumb. New York: Van Norden & Amerman, 1847. Purple printed wraps, verso with woodcut of Thumb in costumes, ad for Barnum’s American museum inside front wrap. Remnants to front wrap, library perforation to first two leaves. - - A Big Story of a Little Man, Written by Himself. [New York, 1923] Folding leaflet with photograph of Baron Paucci “now on exhibition at Dreamland Circus Sideshow”. - - Möller’s Lilliputians. Berlin, ca. 1900. Printed wrappers, illustrated with photographic plates, including an image of the “smallest magician in the world.” - - and A Sketch of the Life … of Tom Thumb and his Wife Lavinia Warren Stratton. New York: Press of Wynkoop, Hallenbeck & Thomas, 1863. Pale orange wraps, lower pictorial. Illustrated with woodcuts. 24mo. Together, 13 items, all in generally good to very good condition. Nice lot.