Description
The first state of the Popular Edition of Hunting Trips of a Ranchman by Theodore Roosevelt, published in 1886.
Octavo, xvi, 347pp, [1], [4pp ads]. Yellow buckram cloth, title stamped in red on front cover, gilt on spine. Floral endpapers. Frontispiece with tissue cover, complete with 25 full page illustrations. Slight left lean to text block, solid binding. Hinges solid. Bookplate removed from front pastedown. The first state of the Popular Edition includes an error on the spine, with “Trip,” not “Trips” in the title.
(Cole & Vail, A6.b) (Howes R-430.b)
(Wheelock, 9) The first edition of Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, known as The Medora Edition, was limited to 500 copies. There were a number of luxury editions offered for sale, including a copy in three quarter levant, which sold for $22.50. An edition in full seal sold for $27.50, full polished levant for $32.00 and olive crushed levant for $75.00. Roosevelt himself contributed $5,000 towards the publication of this work, but sales were not strong, and he did not recoup his investment until many years later.
