Apr 16, 2013 - Sale 2310

Sale 2310 - Lot 341

Price Realized: $ 1,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
ROOSEVELT, THEODORE. The Truth about British East Africa, being a Speech Delivered . . . at Nairobi. [2], 5, [1] pages. 8vo, publisher's printed wrappers, moderate wear and foxing; toned, faint vertical fold. In modern 1/4 morocco folding case. [Nairobi, British East Africa: Leader Press, 1909]
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At a dinner given in his honor, Roosevelt gave this speech which lent support to colonization: "Few people outside of Africa realize that there is here in Africa under the equator a real white man's country." Only 4 copies in WorldCat, and none known at any American auction. "Excessively rare"--Cordingley, Extreme Rarities in the Published Works of Theodore Roosevelt, pages 42-46.