Author: Desmond, Alice Curtis.
Title: Barnum Presents General Tom Thumb.
Description: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1954. 1954. - 8vo, blue cloth titled in red on spine with vignette in red on front cover in pictorial red dw. The dw is chipped with several small pieces out from edges. Price labels removed from the dust wrapper's spine have removed some of the paper. 236pp. Illustrated. Very good in a good dw.

First edition with presentation plate signed "Alice and Tom Desmond" tipped in on front endpaper.

"Here is a delightful, intimate biography of one of America's most famous citizens--a person who was small in stature but amazingly great in experience and adventure." -- From the dw blurb. Very good .

Keywords: CIRCUS; PERFORMING ARTS; THEATER; THEATRICAL; STAGE; MIDGET; DWARF; DWARFISM; TOM THUMB; P.T. BARNUM; CHARLES SHERWOOD STRATTON; HISTORY; AMERICANA; ALICE DESMOND; PRESENTATION COPY; SIGNED; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

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