ROOSEVELT, Theodore.
Hunting Trips of a Ranchman. Sketches of Sport on the Northern Cattle Plains.
"We had a long distance to make that day, and after leaving the grain fields travelled pretty steadily": Standard Library Edition of Hunting Trips Of A Ranchman; Inscribed by Theodore Roosevelt During His Presidency
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1905.
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Finely Bound Standard Library edition of Roosevelt's stories of sport hunting on the Northern Cattle Plains. Octavo, bound in three quarters red morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and detailing to the spine in two compartments in raised bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, silk ribbon bound in, illustrated with 26 full-page engravings by A.B. Frost, R. Swain Gifford, J.C. Beard, Fannie E. Gifford, and Henry Sandham including tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Roosevelt in hunting attire. Presentation copy, inscribed as President by the author on the third free endpaper, "To Victor Geza Fischer with a Merry Xmas from Theodore Roosevelt Dec 1908." The recipient, Victor Geza Fischer was a European painter, likely of Hungarian origin, who corresponded with President Theodore Roosevelt, sending him letters, perhaps about art or his own works, as seen in a 1903 letter preserved at the Library of Congress. In near fine condition.
“Midway through Roosevelt’s third term [in the New York State Assembly] in 1884, his wife died after giving birth to a daughter. He immersed himself in legislative matters to the end of the session, then sought solace on his ranch in western Dakota—‘a land of vast silent spaces, a place of grim beauty… For a while the 25-year-old widower considered a life of ranching, hunting, and writing. He expanded his cattle operation, published Hunting Trips of a Ranchman” (ANB).
Hunting Trips of a Ranchman. Sketches of Sport on the Northern Cattle Plains.
$5,000.00
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