Mar 22, 2018 - Sale 2470

Sale 2470 - Lot 137

Price Realized: $ 625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
LETTER IN A COPY OF "WINNING THE WEST" ROOSEVELT, THEODORE. Typed Letter Signed, as President of the Board of Police Commissioners of NYC, to Dean Sage, anticipating the completion of the fourth volume and expecting to delay any further historical writing until he exits politics. 1 page, 4to, "President's Office" stationery; lower portion of page mounted to rear pastedown of volume 3 of his Winning the West. With the first two volumes. The book, 3 (of 4) volumes. 8vo, publisher's cloth, moderate wear; Dean Sage's bookplate on front pastedown of each volume, maps present. New York, 1889-94. first edition. New York, 19 September 1895

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". . . I am now striving with infinite pain and labor to finish the fourth volume. You can imagine how hard it is with all my other work.
"With the ending of this fourth volume, I shall have to stop all attempts at historical writing until I go out of politics.
"You are right about there being no West for me this year, either."