African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. First trade edition. Map, black and white photographic plates. Cloth over boards. Tall octavo. xxvi, 529 pages.
Roosevelt's own account of the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition he undertook after leaving office as President. The expedition collected over 11,000 specimens for the Smithsonian's natural history museum. Numerous photographs by Roosevelt's son, Kermit.
An original photograph and newspaper clipping are tipped to blank recto of the frontispiece. The photograph shows Theodore Roosevelt addressing a crowd from the rear platform of a rail car in Colorado Springs on August 30, 1910, as identified in a contemporaneous hand in the bottom border of the photograph. The newspaper clipping, datelined August 30 at Colorado Springs, briefly covers Roosevelt's whistlestop, speculating that he could again become President. Indeed he did run again in 1912, as the nominee of the newly formed Progressive Party, defeating his Republican successor, William Howard Taft, but losing to Democrat Woodrow Wilson.
Ref. COLE A29b; WHEELOCK p. 6.
Bound in brown cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine and upper board, top edge gilt, fore and lower edges untrimmed. Prior owner bookplate on front pastedown. Spine is lightly faded, with a cleanly closed tear at head. Gilt titling remain bright and legible. Overall very good to near fine.
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