A Classic of African Adventure, Signed by Roosevelt
African Game Trails.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910.
Price: $5,000.00
About the item
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. Illustrated frontispiece portrait, map, and fifty photographs and drawings. xv, [i], 529 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Original publisher's half binding in pigskin and tan boards, stamped in brown on spine; some exterior wear and soil. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs, engravings, and maps; printed tissue guards; endpapers foxed, with light additional foxing to margins of interior pages; light water-staining at top of pages in first half of volume II; some pages unopened at top; edges tanned. Czech, Africa pp. 138–9, “One of the most famous of all big-game hunting epics”; Hand R266; Riling 1701; Wheelock 6.
Item #373637
Roosevelt’s engaging and 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, the illustrations dynamic, and the scientific content remains of enduring significance. With 50 pages of detailed appendices at rear of second volume. A fine set, signed by Roosevelt in the first volume.
