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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. Deluxe Limited Edition. Quarter Leather. Very good. Deluxe limited edition of African Game Trails by Theodore Roosevelt.. Large octavo, [two volumes], xvi, [2], 268pp; viii, [2], 269-529pp, [1]. Original three-quarter brown pigskin, paper boards, title stamped on spines. Plain endpapers. Uncut edges, some unopened leaves. Foxing to endpapers, occasional foxing to last two chapters of Volume II. Light toning to leafends, heavier on endpapers and title pages. Front hinge of Volume I with archival reinforcement, leather rebuilt and dyed along the full hinge. Complete with frontispiece in each volume, 23 illustrated plates in Volume I and 25 in Volume II, all with tissue guards. Includes a map of the route Roosevelt took through Africa. Lacking dust jackets, as is usual. Includes custom brown cloth slipcase. (Cole & Vail, A29c) From a limited edition of 500 copies signed by Theodore Roosevelt, this is number 382. Theodore Roosevelt served as the…

About African Game Trails

Theodore Roosevelt's account of his African safari and big game hunting expedition, providing thrilling narratives and observations of African wildlife.