May 14, 2019 - Sale 2508

Sale 2508 - Lot 215

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
ROOSEVELT, THEODORE. African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist. Illustrated from photographs by Kermit Roosevelt and others and with drawings by Philip R. Goodwin. Large 8vo, publisher's gilt-stamped brown cloth, top edges gilt, fading to head of spine (corresponding to jacket tear), small dampstain at bottom fore-edge of rear board; dust jacket, tear to head of spine panel into front panel with most of title letters lost, tears and punctures along folds (fully or partly detached), tanned, tape repairs on verso, vertical dampstain to spine panel; ownership inscription to front flyleaf. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910

Additional Details

first trade edition, in the seldom seen dust jacket, with none traced at auction in the last decade.