[Rarebooks] FS: Theodore Roosevelt's THE WINNING OF THE WEST with ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT
Charles Agvent
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Wed Dec 28 10:41:23 EST 2011
From our new WINTER MISCELLANY 2012 catalog containing 65 select items
priced from $25 to $17,500, now available at
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ROOSEVELT, Theodore (Teddy). THE WINNING OF THE WEST with ORIGINAL
AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1900. First
Edition. Four large octavo (6-5/8" x 10-1/8") volumes of the Daniel
Boone Edition bound in original full green morocco with gilt floral
devices in the corners and on the spines which are gilt-lettered with
three raised bands; thick gilt-decorated morocco-bordered doublures with
red suede centers and endpapers; top edge gilt. Illustrated with
numerous plates and five folding maps. Copy #53 of only 200 copies with
a leaf of Roosevelt's ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of @120 words bound
in at the beginning of the first volume. Roosevelt's manuscript refers
to the promotion of [Hugh] Brady to Major General and comments on the
defense of the border in Michigan. In part: "Before the army was ready
the Federal Government was obliged to take other measures for the
defence of the border. Small bodies of rangers were raised from among
the frontier militia, being paid, at the usual rate for soldiers in the
army, a net sum of about two dollars a month while in service." Light,
even sunning to spines; occasional scratch or rub, mostly on the rear
covers with a small piece of leather, smaller than a dime, gouged out of
the rear of the first volume. Still Near Fine and quite uncommon and
desirable. (#016253) $17,500.00
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