Books and Manuscripts

New York and London: The Knickerbocker Press for G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1899. First and limited edition, #131/1,000 numbered copies, signed by Theodore Roosevelt on frontispiece. 4to. xxiv, (vi), 323, (1); viii, 476 pp. Illustrated with a photogravure frontispiece portrait of Roosevelt and 54 plates, with captioned tissue guards, by Frederic Remington, A.B.Frost, J. Carter Beard, R. Swain Gifford, Henry Sandham, and others. Publisher's deluxe full green morocco, stamped in gilt; spine, extremities, and rear board browned; extremities and corners worn; joints rubbed and dry; rear board detached but holding; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; marbled endpapers; scattered light soiling to text. Wheelock 7