Description
The complete four-volume set of The Winning Of The West by Theodore Roosevelt.
Octavo, [four volumes], [xiv], 352pp, [1pp ads], [iv], 427pp, [vi], 339pp, [viii], 363pp. Green boards, burgundy brown cloth spine with title in gilt. Touch of wear to the cloth and spines. All with top edge gilt. Includes four maps, affixed to end of each volume. Bookplate of Rosa Walter Meertief on the front pastedown of each volume. Small bookseller’s label on rear pastedowns.
(Howes R433) (Wheelock, 13) (Cole & Vail, A11g)
An attractive set.
Includes four volumes: From the Alleghenies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776; From the Alleghenies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783; Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790 and Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807. Roosevelt referred to Winning of the West as his “magnum opus.” Each volume was sold separately for $2.50. By the time Volume IV was published in 1896, customers who purchased the four-volume set would receive a mixture of publication years for the book. (Cole & Vail, A11.g)
