ROOSEVELT, THEODORE. 'OUTDOOR PASTIMES OF AN AMERICAN HUNTER'. NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, 1905

8vo (9 1/4 x 6 1/2 in.; 250 x 165mm). Half-title, title in red and black, 49 photographic plates after Philip B. Stewart, Arthur Hewitt, E.S Curtis, and others, captioned tissue guards. Original half brown pigskin over tan paper covered boards, spines stamped in blind; rubbing to pigskin, primarily to joints and corners, interior of upper joint starting.

Charles Henry Deere (inscription to front free endpaper; bookplate to front pastedown). Deere was the son of John Deere, and president of the John Deere company.

Heller 312; Phillips 320

8vo (9 1/4 x 6 1/2 in.; 250 x 165mm). Half-title, title in red and black, 49 photographic plates after Philip B. Stewart, Arthur Hewitt, E.S Curtis, and others, captioned tissue guards. Original half brown pigskin over tan paper covered boards, spines stamped in blind; rubbing to pigskin, primarily to joints and corners, interior of upper joint starting.
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First edition, number 193 of 260 copies on Ruisdael paper, signed by Roosevelt as President. The narrative charmingly covers Roosevelt's adventures with cougars, deer, elk, wolves, etc., and also notes the President's advocacy of wilderness preservation.