[Rarebooks] FS: SIGNED Limited Theodore Roosevelt AFRICAN GAME TRAILS

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ROOSEVELT, Theodore (Teddy). AFRICAN GAME TRAILS. AN ACCOUNT OF THE 
AFRICAN WANDERINGS OF AN AMERICAN HUNTER-NATURALIST. New York: Charles 
Scribner's Sons, 1910. First Edition. Two large octavo (6-5/8" x 10") 
volumes of the First Limited Edition bound in new 1/2 brown morocco 
leather with the original boards and morocco corners, the spines 
decorated and lettered in gilt; new endpapers. Illustrated with 
photographs, drawings, and maps. Copy #416 of 500 copies printed on 
Ruisdael paper and SIGNED by the author on the limitation page in the 
first volume. Roosevelt loved travel. Before becoming governor of New 
York, he served in Cuba as Colonel of the First United States Volunteer 
Cavalry during the Spanish American War. After his election as President 
he traveled to Panama to oversee the construction of the canal becoming 
the first standing President to travel abroad. Shortly after he retired 
from the Presidency in 1909, Roosevelt sailed for Africa returning a 
year later. This book is an account of his African hunting trip. 
Contents fresh. Original boards with a little fading and wear, mostly to 
the corners, the spines as new. Overall Near Fine. (#019622)        $6,000

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