Name/Title
African Game Trails / Theodore RooseveltEntry/Object ID
2017.11.1Description
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' BindingsLexicon
Search Terms
Hunting, Travel, 1910sDimensions
Height
9-1/2 inWidth
6-3/4 inBook Details
Author
Theodore RooseveltIllustrator
Philip R. GoodwinEdition
FirstPublisher
Charles Scribner's SonsPlace Published
City
New YorkState/Province
New YorkCountry
United StatesContinent
North AmericaDate Published
1910Printer
Conkey Hammond PressBinding
Binding Type
Publisher's BindingBinding Designer
Unidentified DesignerBinding 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"Relationships
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Notes
Salesman sample of "African Game Trails" (2017.11.2)