[Rarebooks] FS: INSCRIBED Theodore Roosevelt AUTOBIOGRAPHY with Cryptic Inscription

[Charles Agvent]

ROOSEVELT, Theodore (Teddy). AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. New York: The Macmillan 
Company, 1914. First Edition. Decorated blue cloth. Illustrated with 
photographs. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front free 
endpaper "To James W. Barrett/in memory of the suit!/from/Theodore 
Roosevelt/May 3d 1915." Roosevelt originally wrote April and crossed it 
out. Most signed copies of this title that we have seen have been the 
second printing, which is slightly smaller in format than this, the true 
first and none that we have seen have had such a cryptic inscription! 
Text marginally dampstained to varying degrees throughout resulting in 
waviness; hinges strengthened with minor repairs to spine tips, all 
professionally done; rubbing to the portrait at center of front cover 
with some loss. Overall Very Good.

James W. Barrett was the city editor of Joseph Pulitzer's famed 
newspaper THE WORLD and wrote a book about the paper's demise: THE 
WORLD, THE FLESH AND MESSRS. PULITZER. In 1915 he was working for THE 
PRESS. (#019519)        $6,000

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