[Rarebooks] FS: Inscribed Teddy Roosevelt: THE WILDERNESS HUNTER

[Charles Agvent]

 From our recent Internet Catalogue posted on our website: 
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It contains 39 Signed Presidential Books and Pamphlets including items 
by John Quincy Adams, James Buchanan, Grover Cleveland, Teddy Roosevelt, 
and more.


ROOSEVELT, Theodore (Teddy). THE WILDERNESS HUNTER. AN ACCOUNT OF
THE  BIG GAME OF THE UNITED STATES AND ITS CHASE WITH HORSE HOUND, AND
RIFLE.  New  York:  G.  P. Putnam's  Sons  (1893).  Reprint.  Original
buckram  with  printed  paper  label on spine;  xiv,  472  pages.  The
Presidential  Edition;  illustrated  with  a  frontispiece  plate  and
drawings  at  the  chapter heads and tails. This  copy  INSCRIBED  and
SIGNED  by  the  author  as  President on  the  front  free  endpaper:
"To/Master   Roger  Shaw/from  a   fellow  lover  of   nature/Theodore
Roosevelt/June  15th 1908." Tipped to the front pastedown is a  1908 a
TYPED  LETTER SIGNED (TLS) from a Secretary to the President, on White
House  stationery,  enclosing this book. Tipped to the rear  pastedown
is  a 1939 TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS) from Eleanor Roosevelt (addressed
to  the  same recipient) on White House stationery giving  thanks  for
sympathy  expressed  over  the  death  of  Roosevelt's  nephew.  Teddy
Roosevelt's  inscription is blotchy, particularly the word "Theodore,"
but  is still quite attractive. Front hinge is cracked but tight;  the
spine  label  is tanned and scuffed with mild soiling to  the  covers.
Very Good                                                     $3500.00

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