Deluxe signed book set: African Game Trails, Volumes I and II. Limited edition, numbered 387/500. NY: Charles Scribners's Sons, 1910. Hardcover bound handsomely rebound in half brown leather (expertly mimicking the original binding), 6.75 x 10, 529 total pages. Neatly signed on the colophon of the first volume, "Theodore Roosevelt." Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: Restored to VG+/None, with some minor mottled foxing to textblock.
Just after leaving the White House, Theodore Roosevelt famously undertook the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition in 1909-1910; this trip to Africa was a defining moment in Roosevelt's post-presidential legacy and resulted in his authorship of African Game Trails, detailing the "African wanderings of an American hunter-naturalist." A handsome, sought-after limited edition set printed on Ruisdael paper by the De Vinne Press.
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