ROOSEVELT THEODORE The Wilderness Hunter

Sale 2473 - Lot 197

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ROOSEVELT, THEODORE. The Wilderness Hunter. Frontispiece plate, text illustrations. xiv, 472 pages. 8vo, publisher's buckram with faded printed paper spine label, minor wear, light soiling to backstrip; inscribed by the author on front free endpaper (signature smeared), with two related letters tipped to endpapers. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1893?]

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The "Presidential Edition." Roosevelt inscribed the book to the five-year-old son of publisher Albert Shaw (1857-1947): "To Master Roger Shaw, from a fellow lover of nature. Theodore Roosevelt, June 15th 1908." Tipped to the front pastedown is the 1908 transmittal letter from Roosevelt's secretary. Tipped to the rear free endpaper is a signed note from Eleanor Roosevelt to Shaw, thanking him for condolences on the death of her nephew Daniel Stewart Roosevelt (1917–1939).