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Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919) Four Titles Related to the President, Signed by their Authors or Publishers. Including: Lawrence F. Abbott's Impressions of Theodore Roosevelt, Garden City/New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1919, octavo, signed and inscribed by Abbott on ffep, publisher's red cloth; Henry Cabot Lodge's Theodore Roosevelt, Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1919, limited edition signed by Lodge on ffep, in the original dust jacket, with a reproduced photograph of TR at his desk in the Outlook office inserted, identified and initialed by Lawrence Abbott on the verso inserted, publisher's cloth (marginal chipping to dust jacket),11 x 7 in.; Kermit Roosevelt's The Long Trail, New York: Review of Reviews, the Metropolitan Magazine, 1921, autograph edition, signed by Kermit on limitation page, octavo, publisher's cloth spine paper boards; [and] Lord Charnwood's Theodore Roosevelt, Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1923, octavo, with a slip signed by a publisher at the Atlantic Monthly Press tipped in, "with compliments of the Atlantic Monthly Press," publisher's cloth, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in; all books from the collection of longtime Roosevelt friend, author, editor, and secretary, Lawrence Fraser Abbott (1859-1933). (4)
Estimate $100-150
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Page & Co., Lawrence Fraser Abbott, Lawrence F. Abbott, Garden CityJohn Dorfman
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