[Rarebooks] FS: Signed Teddy Roosevelt on the North American Indian, Foreword to Edward Curtis's works
Charles Agvent
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Tue Dec 4 07:39:16 EST 2007
From our list of 72 items in our new Fall catalogue now posted on our
web site: http://www.erols.com/agvent. Also in the catalogue are fine
Signed Presidential and Literary items, Early Printed Books, and our
usual selection of the unusual.
ROOSEVELT, Theodore (Teddy) [CURTIS, Edward]. DOCUMENT SIGNED
[Foreword from Curtis's THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN]. The printed
Foreword page (9-1/2" x 12") from Edward Curtis's monumental
20-volume study of the North American Indian attractively SIGNED at
the bottom below his printed name. In part: "The Indian as he has
hitherto been is on the point of passing away. His life has been
lived under conditions thru which our own race past so many ages ago
that not a vestige of their memory remains. It would be a veritable
calamity if a vivid and truthful record of these conditions were not
kept." Wonderful item that would frame very nicely. Light creasing
along edges. About Fine $2000.00
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