Description
The Autographed Edition of The Long Trail by Kermit Roosevelt.
Twelvemo, 79pp. Brown marbled boards, brown cloth spine, title printed on white label on spine. Complete with frontispiece portrait and three full page illustrations. Some offsetting to endpapers from the dust jacket, internally fine. Housed in the publisher’s cardboard box, title on label affixed to cover. Light soiling to box, as expected. Includes the original wax paper dust jacket. Signed by author Kermit Roosevelt on limitation page. Scarce in this condition.
Kermit Roosevelt (1889-1943) was an American explorer, soldier, and intelligence officer. He was the son of President Theodore Roosevelt and accompanied him to South America to explore the Amazon River basin in 1913. What became known as the River of Doubt South American Expedition served as the basis for Roosevelt’s popular book, Through the Brazilian Wilderness. Kermit married Belle Willard in 1914 and they had four children together. Roosevelt served in the United States Army in both World Wars. During World War II, he served with distinction as a Second Lieutenant in the British Army, but was discharged after an injury. He later joined the U.S. Army, with the assistance of his cousin, President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Kermit died by suicide in Alaska in 1943.
