[Rarebooks] FS: Theodore Roosevelt's AFRICAN GAME TRAILS, First Edition, INSCRIBED

[Charles Agvent]

One of the 60 fine new arrivals recently posted on our website as part 
of our SPRING MISCELLANY catalog.  See them all here: 
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ROOSEVELT, Theodore (Teddy ROOSEVELT). AFRICAN GAME TRAILS. AN ACCOUNT 
OF THE AFRICAN WANDERINGS OF AN AMERICAN HUNTER-NATURALIST. New York: 
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. First Edition. The First Trade Edition 
bound in publisher's decorated cloth; xv, [i], 529 pages. Illustrated 
with photographs, drawings, and maps. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front 
endpaper by the author less than 3 months prior to his death: "Inscribed 
for/Mr. L. DeSales Casey/with the best wishes of/Theodore Roosevelt/Oct. 
18th 1918." Roosevelt loved travel and was the first standing president 
to travel abroad. Shortly after he retired from the presidency in 1909, 
he sailed for Africa returning a year later. This book is an account of 
his African hunting trip and is not often seen signed by Roosevelt 
outside of the edition limited to 500 copies issued by the publisher 
signed. The front endpaper has a little wear along the edge not 
affecting the inscription. There is also a two-inch tear on the top of 
page 260 with no loss. On the facing illustration is a fingerprint in 
ink (Roosevelt's?). The top of the spine has a half-inch closed tear. 
Near Fine.

Casey was the Art Editor of Collier's Magazine during the early 1900's 
and had a passion for collecting autographs.         $6,000.00

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