Description
Signed limited edition of African Game Trails by Theodore Roosevelt, in the publisher’s slipcase, dust jacket and card sleeves.
Large octavo, [two volumes], xvi, [2], 268pp; viii, [2], 269-529pp, [1]. Original three-quarter brown pigskin, paper boards, title stamped on spine. Plain endpapers. Uncut edges. Complete with frontispiece in each volume, 23 illustrated plates in Volume I and 25 in Volume II, all with tissue guards. Includes a map of the route Roosevelt took through Africa. From the library of Charles L. Gilcrest, with his bookplate on the front pastedown of each volume.
In the publisher’s exceptionally rare paper dust jackets, both in fine condition, free of restoration. This set also includes the publisher’s slipcase and cardboard chemises, which are not mentioned in Cole & Vail. The slipcase is lacking the top board, one hinge beginning to separate. The cardboard chemises are both delicate at the hinges, some light rubbing to the spines, exceptionally rare in any condition.
(Cole & Vail, A29c) (Wheelock, 6)
From a limited edition of 500 copies signed by Theodore Roosevelt, this is number 48.
One of two known complete examples of the signed limited edition, one of which sold at auction in 2024.
