Hanover, NH: Steerforth Press, (2012.). SIGNED - The author's first novel, one which beautifully evokes 1840s Manhattan: "With uncanny confidence and impeccable timing, a young Phineas T. Barnum arrived in New York in 1842 and transformed a dusty natural history museum into a great ark for public imagination." SIGNED on the title page. 458 pp. ISBN: 9781586422013.

Hanover, NH: Steerforth Press, (2012.). SIGNED - The author's first novel, one which beautifully evokes 1840s Manhattan: "With uncanny confidence and impeccable timing, a young Phineas T. Barnum arrived in New York in 1842 and transformed a dusty natural history museum into a great ark for public imagination." INSCRIBED on the title page. 458 pp. ISBN: 9781586422013.

New York: Boni & Liveright, (1923). Hardcover first edition - Brief biographies of Jessie James, P.T. Barnum, Admiral Dewey, Frances Willard, Brigham Young, James J. Hill and Mark Hanna. The title comes from Theodore Roosevelt's "The Strenuous Life" in which he mentions those "who predominantly and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character." Frontispiece and 8 insterted glossy plates. Bibliographies at the end of each section. 370 pp.