[Rarebooks] FS: Teddy Roosevelt's THE WILDERNESS HUNTER, 1/200 SIGNED

Charles Agvent chagvent at ptd.net
Fri Nov 12 14:23:04 EST 2010


One of several fine signed books not yet posted elsewhere but with us in 
booth 415 at the Boston Book Fair this weekend:

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 & London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1893). First Edition. Quarto 
(8" x 11-1/4") in the original gilt-decorated cream cloth; xvi, 472 
pages. Illustrated with a frontispiece plate, drawings at the chapter 
heads and tails, and 23 full-page plates by A. B. Frost, Henry Sandham, 
J. Carter Beard, Frederick Remington, and Harry Eaton. This is copy #124 
of only 200 copies SIGNED by the author on the limitation page. One of 
Roosevelt's scarcest and most desirable books. Light soiling to covers; 
front hinge cracked but tight. Near Fine. 		$7,500.00

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