Description
Signed limited edition of Big Game Hunting by Theodore Roosevelt. Large quarto, xxiv, 328pp, viii, 476pp. Publishers three quarter brown morocco, title in gilt on spine, raised bands. Repaired hinges and rebuilt lower panel on spine. Marbled endpapers. Light dampstain along bottom edge of text block. Complete with 55 illustrations (tissue covered). Top edge gilt and uncut edges. Limited edition of 1000 copies, all signed by President Theodore Roosevelt beneath photograph on frontispiece. (Wheelock, 7) This is number 798 of 1000.
Comments: This limited edition by G.P. Putnam’s Sons was released in full beige buckram cloth and three quarter brown morocco. Big Game Hunting is comprised of “Hunting Trips of a Ranchman” and “The Wilderness Hunter,” both written by Roosevelt as he explored the American West. Illustrations by artists such as Remington, Frost, Sanford and Gifford.
