African Game Trails / Theodore Roosevelt
Book
xxiii, 583 p. : ill., maps
Includes index.
"With more than two hundred illustrations from photographs by Kermit Roosevelt and other members of the expedition, and from drawings by Philip R. Goodwin."
Written during Roosevelt's tour of Africa and Europe following the end of 1904-1908 Presidential term. "The twenty-sixth president of the United States was also a world-renowned hunter, conservationist, soldier, and scholar. In 1908 he took a long safari holiday in East Africa..."
2017.11.1
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
HuntingTravel1910s
9-1/2 in
6-3/4 in
Theodore Roosevelt
Philip R. Goodwin
First
New York
New York
United States
North America
1910
Conkey Hammond Press
Publisher's Binding
Unidentified Designer
Bound in olive green vertically ribbed pictorial cloth depicting a herd of elephants under trees. Design stamped in salmon, brown, black, and gilt. Tree foliage design achieved by negative stamping. Gilt titles to spine and boards. Signed binding, "B"
East Africa
Salesman sample of "African Game Trails" (2017.11.2)