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Roosevelt, Theodore | The Medora Edition of Roosevelt's Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, limited to 500 copies

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April 14, 05:34 PM GMT

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1,000 - 1,500 USD

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Roosevelt, Theodore

Hunting Trips of a Ranchman. Sketches of Sport on the Northern Cattle Plains. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1885

4to (280 x 205 mm). Illustrated with 4 Japan proof etchings by R. Swain Gifford, 7 engravings after J.C. Beard, and 20 full-page illustrations by A.B. Frost, Fannie E. Gifford, and Henry Sandham; a few early ownership signatures, scattered offsetting to a few plates, mostly marginal. Publisher's pictorial brown cloth, gilt, uncut; recased, preserving original spine.

First Edition, Medora Edition, No. 115 of 500.

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