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ROOSEVELT (THEODORE) American Big-Game Hunting. The Book of the Boone and Crickett Club. Editors Theodore Roosevelt, George Bird Grinnell, with a tipped-in AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("Your friend/ Theodore Roosevelt"), Printed by W. Straker Ltd., 1921, 8vo (3) image 1
ROOSEVELT (THEODORE) American Big-Game Hunting. The Book of the Boone and Crickett Club. Editors Theodore Roosevelt, George Bird Grinnell, with a tipped-in AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("Your friend/ Theodore Roosevelt"), Printed by W. Straker Ltd., 1921, 8vo (3) image 2
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ROOSEVELT (THEODORE)
American Big-Game Hunting. The Book of the Boone and Crickett Club. Editors Theodore Roosevelt, George Bird Grinnell, with a tipped-in AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("Your friend/ Theodore Roosevelt"), Printed by W. Straker Ltd., 1921, 8vo (3)

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ROOSEVELT (THEODORE)

American Big-Game Hunting. The Book of the Boone and Crickett Club. Editors Theodore Roosevelt, George Bird Grinnell, with a tipped-in AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("Your friend/ Theodore Roosevelt"), dated November 1893, thanking [Bellamy] Storer for his generous subscription ("Well, it was the first I received; and had it not been for the example you set I might never have been able to get out this volume at all"), 1893; Hunting in Many Lands..., 1895, together 2 vol., plates, publisher's cloth, silver gilt lettering and decoration, New York, Forest & Stream Publishing Company--[STORER (MARIA LONGWORTH)] Theodore Roosevelt The Child. A Sketch, including Thirty-one Letters from President Roosevelt to Mrs. Bellamy Storer..., NUMBER 1 OF 100 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR above the printed limitation ('Privately Printed and the Type Dispersed'), publisher's cloth gilt, rubbed, spine defective, Printed by W. Straker Ltd., 1921, 8vo (3)

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Provenance: Theodore Roosevelt, autograph letter sending American Big-Game Hunting to its principal subscriber, Bellamy Storer (1847-1922), U.S. Representative, diplomat for the United States in Europe and close friend; Maria Longworth Storer (1849-1932), founder of Rookwood Pottery of Cincinnati, patron of fine art and granddaughter of the wealthy Cincinnati businessman Nicholas Longworth; and thence by descent to the present owner.

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