SKETCH OF THE LIFE, PERSONAL APPEARANCE, CHARACTER AND MANNERS OF CHARLES S. STRATTON, THE MAN IN MINIATURE, KNOWN AS GENERAL TOM THUMB, FIFTEEN YEARS OLD, TWENTY-EIGHT INCHES HIGH, AND WEIGHING ONLY FIFTEEN POUNDS. WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF REMARKABLE DWARFS, GIANTS, AND OTHER HUMAN PHENOMENA, OF ANCIENT AND MODERN TIMES. ALSO, GENERAL TOM THUMB'S SONGS
by [Tom Thumb (i.e., Charles S. Stratton)]
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New York: Van Norden & Amerman, Printers, 1847. 24 pp. Publisher's printed wrappers (both wrappers printed recto and verso). Wrappers creased and lightly chipped. 3/4-inch stain in rear wrapper. Foxing throughout. Good.
Second edition of the first biography of Tom Thumb (after the first of 1846), with a pictorial advertisment on the rear wrapper of Barnum's American Museum, where the pamphlet was sold. "General Tom Thumb" was Charles Stratton (1838-1883), a little person from Bridgeport, Connecticut, who became the one of P. T. Barnum's biggest talents and one of the 19th-century's most beloved celebrities. The present edition is updated with American press accounts of Stratton's 1847 return from his recent first European tour and visits to Washington, D.C., Richmond, Baltimore, and Philadelphia.
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- W. C. Baker Rare Books & Ephemera (US)
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- Title
- SKETCH OF THE LIFE, PERSONAL APPEARANCE, CHARACTER AND MANNERS OF CHARLES S. STRATTON, THE MAN IN MINIATURE, KNOWN AS GENERAL TOM THUMB, FIFTEEN YEARS OLD, TWENTY-EIGHT INCHES HIGH, AND WEIGHING ONLY FIFTEEN POUNDS. WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF REMARKABLE DWARFS, GIANTS, AND OTHER HUMAN PHENOMENA, OF ANCIENT AND MODERN TIMES. ALSO, GENERAL TOM THUMB'S SONGS
- Author
- [Tom Thumb (i.e., Charles S. Stratton)]
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
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- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Van Norden & Amerman, Printers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1847
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- circus, sideshow, museum, dime museums, entertainment
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