[Rarebooks] FS: Theodore Roosevelt INSCRIBED to "a man who cares both for the outside of a horse and the inside of a book"

[Charles Agvent]

ROOSEVELT, Theodore (Teddy ROOSEVELT). OUTDOOR PASTIMES OF AN AMERICAN 
HUNTER. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. First Edition. 
Attractively bound in half red morocco leather and marbled boards with 
marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, and a gilt-lettered spine with gilt 
and blindstamp decorations and four raised bands. With the following 
SIGNED presentation as President by the author on the front endpaper: 
"Inscribed for/Mrs. Thomas Hastings/at the request of/David Gray/with a 
Merry Xmas from/Theodore Roosevelt/Dec. 25th 1905." Illustrated with 
plates. Paper a little aged; offsetting from inscription to the 
half-title page. Near Fine with a superb inscription in a lovely binding.

David Gray, related to the Roosevelts through marriage, was a friend, a 
lawyer, and a journalist who wrote sporting books, the best known being 
GALLOPS. In a letter to his son Kermit, Roosevelt said of Gray: "I 
always find something companionable in a man who cares both for the 
outside of a horse and the inside of a book." (#017812)        $5,500.00

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