African Game Trails / Theodore Roosevelt

Name/Title

African Game Trails / Theodore Roosevelt

Entry/Object ID

2017.11.1

Description

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..."

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

Hunting, Travel, 1910s

Dimensions

Height

9-1/2 in

Width

6-3/4 in

Book Details

Author

Theodore Roosevelt

Illustrator

Philip R. Goodwin

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

Printer

Conkey Hammond Press

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding

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"

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Place

Location

East Africa

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Notes

Salesman sample of "African Game Trails" (2017.11.2)