African Game Trails / Theodore Roosevelt

Book

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American Bookbinders Museum

Name/Title

African Game Trails / Theodore Roosevelt

Entry/Object ID

2017.11.2

Description

[86] p. : ill. Blank lined order forms to the rear (one removed). Pencil notations throughout. Has three sample spines from which the buyer would select the one he desired: one in cloth and two in leather. Written during Roosevelt's tour of Africa and Europe following his 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..."

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

Dummies (Bookselling), 1910s

Dimensions

Height

9-1/2 in

Width

6-3/4 in

Book Details

Author

Theodore Roosevelt

Edition

First

Publisher

Charles Scribner's Sons

Place Published

City

New York

State/Province

New York

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Published

1910

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding- Salesman's Sample

Binding Designer

Unidentified Designer

Binding Notes

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" at center left border.

Notes

First edition of the same binding in collection

Relationships

Related Entries

Notes

First edition of same binding in collection, 2017.11.1