[Rarebooks] FS: Theodore Roosevelt, 6 volume set WINNING OF THE WEST with FIVE of the volumes SIGNED

[Charles Agvent]

One of a number of better signed books that will be included in our 
Spring New York Book Fair Catalogue to be posted on our website next 
week.  We will be exhibiting at the ABAA New York Book Fair, April 4 - 
6, at the Park Avenue Armory at 67th St.  We will also be bringing a 
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ROOSEVELT, Theodore.    THE WINNING OF THE WEST.    New York:  Current
Literature  Pub. Co.  1905.    Reprint.  Six small (16mo: 4-1/4" x 7")
volumes  in half red morocco with matching corners, five raised bands,
gilt-lettered  and  decorated spine, top edge gilt.  Illustrated  with
frontispiece  portraits  and  views.  FIVE  of  the  six  volumes  are
INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author.  The first volume, the only volume
with  the  recipient's name, is INSCRIBED to Sidney Gould  and  SIGNED
and dated 10 January 1916.  The second volume is INSCRIBED on the same
date  "with  the  good  wishes of" and SIGNED.  The  third  volume  is
INSCRIBED "Good luck/Theodore Roosevelt/Jan. 1916."  The fourth volume
is  INSCRIBED  "with the best wishes/of/Theodore Roosevelt."  Finally,
the    sixth  volume  is  INSCRIBED   "A  happy   new   year!/Theodore
Roosevelt/Jan. 1916."  THE WINNING OF THE WEST was Roosevelt's literary 
masterpiece.  After completing it, Roosevelt wondered whether, "I have 
or have not properly expressed all the ideas that seethed vaguely in my 
soul as I wrote it" (Edmund Morris, THE RISE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT, p. 
397).    The book was immensely successful, with the original edition 
disappearing in little more than a month.A pencil note by the owner in 
the first volume indicates  that  the  books were purchased on the day 
of Roosevelt's death:  6 January 1919.  Very Good or better, and quite 
an exceptional set.                                         $18,500.00

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