African Game Trails

Theodore ROOSEVELT

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African Game Trails
African Game Trails
African Game Trails

SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION OF AFRICAN GAME TRAILS, ONE OF ONLY 500 COPIES SIGNED BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT

ROOSEVELT, Theodore. African Game Trails. An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1910. Two volumes. Large octavo, original three-quarter tan pigskin, additional textured brown cloth dust jackets, original printed paper dust jackets, uncut. Housed together in a custom clamshell box.

Signed limited first edition, number 164 of only 500 copies signed by Roosevelt, with 50 illustrations, including photographs, photogravures, drawings and a map, in very scarce original dust jackets.

“One of the most famous of all big-game hunting epics, this, with its larger than life sportsmen, was almost continuously in print until the 1930s. In British East Africa, Roosevelt hunted lion and plains game on the Kapiti Plains, while, in the Bondoni hill country, he collected rhinoceros and giraffe. On Juja Farm, his son Kermit faced leopard, while Teddy bagged rhino and hippopotamus. On the Kamiti River, buffalo were taken. Near the Sotik, additional rhino and lion were hunted, with elephant bagged near Mt. Kenia. On the Guaso Nyiro, giraffe and a variety of plains game were shot. Further adventures included hunting elephant near Lake Nyanza, rhino and plains game in the Lado, and eland on the Nile. Roosevelt’s total bag was enormous even by the liberal standards of that era” (Czech, 138-39). Issued simultaneously in a trade edition. Wheelock, 6.

Scarce original printed paper dust jackets with light toning and rubbing to spines, minor loss to spine ends. Books fine. A desirable copy.

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