[Rarebooks] FS: Theodore Roosevelt's THE WILDERNESS HUNTER Inscribed to the Best American He Ever Knew
Charles Agvent
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Thu Apr 18 13:14:46 EDT 2013
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ROOSEVELT, Theodore (Teddy ROOSEVELT). THE WILDERNESS HUNTER. AN ACCOUNT
OF THE BIG GAME OF THE UNITED STATES AND ITS CHASE WITH HORSE HOUND, AND
RIFLE Inscribed to the Best American He Ever Knew. New York & London: G.
P. Putnam's Sons, (1893). First Edition. Small quarto (6" x 9-1/4") in
the original gilt-decorated cream cloth with brown lettering on the
front cover; 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 trade edition preceded the limited edition of 200 copies,
per a "Notice" that is tipped in before the frontispiece announcing that
the limited edition is in preparation. A monumental Association Copy
INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "To my beloved
friend,/Jacob A. Riis;/may you enjoy the/northwoods as much as I/enjoyed
the great plains/& the Rockies!/Theodore Roosevelt/July 1901." The
number "14" has been inserted after the word "July," possibly by
Roosevelt. Laid in is a pass made out to Riis for a Roosevelt Reception
aboard the U.S. Revenue Steamer Androscoggin on 18 June 1910. Of Jacob
Riis, his lifelong friend, Roosevelt remarked in his AUTOBIOGRAPHY: "I
am tempted to call [him] the best American I ever knew." In 1904 Riis
published a biography of his good friend titled THEODORE ROOSEVELT: THE
CITIZEN. Covers soiled and marked, tight. Spine darkened, gilt still
strong, with some chipping at the spine tips. Good or better and an
Association Copy of the first order.
Jacob Riis, among the most dedicated advocates for America's oppressed
and downtrodden, arrived in New York from his native Denmark at the age
of 21 in 1870. A pioneer in photojournalism, Riis photographed and wrote
about the slums and tenements of a New York in the dawn of a new
century. Riis came to Roosevelt's attention through his 1890 book HOW
THE OTHER HALF LIVES. As Commissioner of the New York City Police
Department, Roosevelt accompanied Riis on his evening travels through
the slums and witnessed firsthand the inhumane conditions endured by
many of New York's inhabitants. In his 1901 book MAKING OF AN AMERICAN,
Riis wrote of Roosevelt: "It could not have been long after I wrote HOW
THE OTHER HALF LIVES that he came to the Evening Sun office one day
looking for me. I was out and he left his card merely writing on the
back of it that he had read my book and had 'come to help'. That was
all, and it tells the whole story of the man. I loved him from the day I
first saw him; nor ever in all the years that have passed has he failed
of the promise made then. No one ever helped as he did. For two years,
we were brothers on Mulberry Street." Roosevelt, in turn, wrote of Riis
after his death: "It is difficult for me to write of Jacob Riis only
from the public standpoint. He was one of my truest and closest friends.
I have ever prized the fact that once, in speaking of me, he said,
'since I met him he has been my brother.' I have not only admired and
respected him beyond measure, but I have loved him dearly ... and I
mourn him as if he were one of my own family." (#016941) $20,000.00
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