[Rarebooks] FS: Theodore Roosevelt THE WINNING OF THE WEST with 5 of the 6 volumes SIGNED by Roosevelt

[Charles Agvent]

This, along with many other fine items from our stock including new, 
uncatalogued arrivals will be on display in our booth D-20 at the New 
York Antiquarian Book Fair this weekend:

http://nyantiquarianbookfair.com/

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 leather 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, page 397). The book was 
immensely successful, with the first 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 a quite exceptional set. (#014367)        
$18,500.00

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