[Rarebooks] FS: Theodore Roosevelt's SIGNED set of Charlotte Bronte's WORKS

[Charles Agvent]

[ROOSEVELT, Theodore (Teddy ROOSEVELT)] BRONTE, Charlotte. LIFE AND 
WORKS OF CHARLOTTE BRONTE AND HER SISTERS. Theodore Roosevelt's Set 
Signed by Him in Two Volumes. London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1883. 
Complete in seven volumes. Recently rebound in half polished red calf 
with matching corners and marbled boards and endpapers, gilt-lettered 
and decorated spines with five raised bands, top edges gilt; illustrated 
with plates. The first and fourth volumes are SIGNED by the future 
president and dated 1885 on the front blanks. The second and third 
volumes have written on the front blanks in the same, unknown hand 
Christmas 1885 presentations to Christine Griffin Roosevelt, one from C. 
K. G. and the other from Aunt Lucie. Christine Roosevelt was the wife of 
William Emlem Roosevelt, first cousin and frequent advisor to President 
Roosevelt. There are tears and some chipping to scattered pages, not 
very many, due to the cheap quality of the paper. Contents Very Good; 
bindings Fine. (#014910)        $12,500.00

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