INSCRIBED TEDDY BEAR SKETCH
The Gridiron Sporting Guide 1926.
Washington, D.C: Gridiron Club, 1926.
Price: $250.00
About the item
First edition. Illus. 86, [6, ads] pp. 1 vols. 12mo. INSCRIBED TEDDY BEAR SKETCH. Original white and black cloth, stamped in red cloth. Fine.
Item #258341
Inscribed by the Club president Clifford K. Berryman with a sketch of a Teddy Bear on page 6. Berryman was a Pulitzer-prize winning Washington Post and Washington Star political cartoonist whose 1902 cartoon of Teddy Roosevelt refusing to shoot a bear cub inspired the creation of the toy "teddy bear."