Nov 29, 2001 - Sale 1916

Sale 1916 - Lot 18

Price Realized: $ 115
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 80 - $ 120
(BARNUM, P. T.) An Account of the Life . . . of Charles S. Stratton, the Remarkable Dwarf, Known as General Tom Thumb, Junior. Full-page illustration on verso of title, repeated on rear wrapper. 16 pages. 16mo, original wrappers, chipped with loss, stained, detached; foxing.<\t>New York, 1843

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Barnum discovered Stratton in 1842, where at age 4 he measured only 25 inches. Barnum promtly began exhibiting the dwarf in his newly-acquired American Museum and toured with him for many years after.<