Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was an American author, naturalist, solider, explorer, historian, and politician. He served as the 26th President of the United States of America and is noted as the founder of the Progressive Party insurgency of 1912. His more famous works, out of the eighteen books he wrote, include The Naval War of 1812, his autobiography, The Rough Riders, and The Winning of the West.
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. First trade edition, W.B. Conkey Co. Chicago, Printer & Binder on verso of title-page. "One of the most famous of all big-game hunting epics” (Czech). Read More Item Details for African Game Trails. An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist Add to Wish List
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. First edition, limited numbered issue signed by the author (this is #344), 500 copies the entire edition, printed by the De Vinne Press on Ruisdael paper. Roosevelt’s engaging and highly interesting account of his travels through British East Africa, the Congo, and the Sudan..... Read More Item Details for African Game Trails Add to Wish List
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New York: Authors Press, [1908]. Autograph Edition, no. 3 of 32 copies, prepared for T. F. Hinckley. “A Shot at a Bull Elk” was originally written by TR for the Liber Scriptorum of the Authors Club (1893), and is here presented (printing the complete text) as the cornerstone of this..... Read More Item Details for “A Shot at a Bull Elk” [in:] Authors Digest. The World’s Great Stories in Brief Add to Wish List
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New York: September 17, 1929. Reading in part: "I don't know what the most perilous time in my life was, but I suppose it must have been various times during the war. The hunting trip that was the biggest success was the one we have just finished, because on that..... Read More Item Details for Typed Letter Signed, "Theodore Roosevelt" to Seymour Halpern Add to Wish List
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Oyster Bay New York: December 26, 1919 & January 3, 1920. A pair of letters from President Roosevelt's son, Theodore "Ted" Roosevelt III (1887-1944), known as "Theodore Jr." Both are addressed to Rev. Philip S. Bird in Dobbs Ferry-on-Hudson, New York. In the first he declines an invitation to speak..... Read More Item Details for 2 Typed Letters Signed ("Theodore Roosevelt") to Rev. Philip S. Bird Add to Wish List
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Las Cruces, New Mexico: 1 March 1904. Homestead Certificate for a farm in New Mexico, issued early in Thodore Roosevelt’s second term. Read More Item Details for Document signed, in a secretarial hand, Land Grant of 160 acres to John H. Trevarrow, in Township sixteen South of Range thirteen West of New Mexico Meridian Add to Wish List
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Washington, DC: 20 December 1906. Read More Item Details for Partly printed document on vellum, appointing Winfield Scott Pugh, Jr. to Second Assistant Surgeon in the Navy with the rank of Lieutenant, signed by Theodore Roosevelt Add to Wish List
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. First trade edition, issue with Scribner's seal on verso of title (published simultaneously with subscriber’s edition). Roosevelt's highly interesting account of his travels through British East Africa, the Congo, and the Sudan in pursuit of all manner of big game. The narrative is gripping..... Read More Item Details for African Game Trails. An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist Add to Wish List
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Chicago: 1910. “not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life” An elaborate menu and program for a banquet held in honor of Roosevelt after his return from his travels in Africa, and before the formal announcement of his candidacy in 1912. The progressive program Roosevelt..... Read More Item Details for Banquet tendered to Colonel Theodore Roosevelt by the Hamilton Club of Chicago Thursday evening September the Eighth. 1910. The Congress Hotel Add to Wish List
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