Signed book: Big Game Hunting in the Rockies and on the Great Plains. First edition, limited issue, numbered 99/1000. NY: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1899. Hardcover, 8.5 x 11.25, 476 pages. Signed below the frontispiece three-quarter-length portrait of Roosevelt in his Rough Rider uniform, “Theodore Roosevelt.” Autographic condition: fine, with a trivial brush. Book condition: P/None. Brown leather covers heavily worn and completely detached; backstrip (spine cover) detached, with large pieces of tape along entirety; first/last few pages detached and chipped along edges; expected wear to deckled edges. Despite the poor condition of the covers and exterior, the textblock is strongly bound and the interior is crisp and clean. The copious illustrations are striking, with no offsetting or fading. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.
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