Struggles and Triumphs: or, Forty Years' Recollections of P. T. Barnum

Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor) · 1891

“----a map of busy life, Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns.” _To the Public_:--Although the large octavo edition of STRUGGLES AND TRIUMPHS, upon fine paper, has enjoyed an unprecedented large sale at $3.50 and upwards, according to styles of binding; yet determined to supply the popular demand for a cheaper edition, and thus in a measure render to the great American people, who have lavished upon me so many favors, a due recognition of their claims upon my gratitude and esteem,--I have purchased, of the original publishers, the electrotype plates of text and engravings together with the copyright of the work; and, now enabled to control the publication myself, I give th…

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