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Description:
Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919) African Game Trails, First Edition with Signed Presentation Card Laid In. New York: Scribner's Sons, 1910.
Large octavo, Roosevelt's presentation on Sagamore Hill note paper, to Robert Keith MacKaye, bound in publisher's brown cloth, stamped in gilt, binding shaken, becoming decased, some faults to front board, 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.
Provenance: the collection of Percy MacKaye (1875-1956),by descent to Marion MacKaye Ober.
Estimate $700-900
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Roosevelt, Robert Keith, Sagamore Hill, Keith MacKaye, Marion MacKaye, Percy MacKayeJohn Dorfman
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