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ROOSEVELT, THEODORE African Game Trails. An account of the African wanderings of an American hunter-naturalist.

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ROOSEVELT, THEODORE African Game Trails. An account of the African wanderings of an American hunter-naturalist.

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Lot 13
ROOSEVELT, THEODORE African Game Trails. An account of the African wanderings of an American hunter-naturalist.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. First trade edition (one of several binding variants), with Scribner's Sons seal on copyright page, a presentation copy from Theodore Roosevelt to A. H. Samuels, dated September 20th 1910.. Publisher's green pictorial cloth gilt. 9 3/8 x 6 3/8 inches (23.5 x 15.5 cm); xxiii, 583 pp.; frontispiece, in-text illustrations throughout, half-title. Light wear, front hinge possibly tightened, a very nice copy overall.
"One of the most famous of all big game hunting epics..." (Czech). Czech, Africa, p. 238; Hand R266; Riling 1701; Wheelock 6.


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