BOOKS RELATING TO THEODORE ROOSEVELT
LOTS 365-393
365
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BAZALGETTE, LÉON.
Théodore Roosevelt.
43 pages. 12mo, original printed
wrappers, moderate wear; uncut; gift inscription from the author to Max Hallet on half-
title.
Paris, 1905
[150/250]
WITH
—a 30-page photocopy of an unpublished typescript translation by Roosevelt biographer
Edmund Morris, in which he notes that this monograph was “the first, and still the only such
study written by a Frenchman.”
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CLOWES, WILLIAM LAIRD, SIR.
The Royal Navy: A History from the
Earliest Times to the Present.
Numerous plates and text illustrations. 7 volumes. 4to,
publisher’s cloth gilt, minor wear; intermittent minor foxing.
London, 1897-1903
[400/600]
President Roosevelt contributed a 180-page chapter on the War of 1812, which leads off
Volume VI.
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HAGEDORN, HERMANN.
Group of books, pamphlets and broadsides
by the Theodore Roosevelt biographer.
62 items. Various sizes and conditions.
Vp, 1909-77
[200/300]
Hermann Hagedorn (1882-1964) was Theodore Roosevelt’s friend and biographer; he ran the
Theodore Roosevelt Association for almost forty years. Many of the books in this lot are
inscribed by Hagedorn; many but not all relate to Roosevelt. Highlights include: Roosevelt,
Prophet of Unity. Inscribed to Henry Cabot Lodge. New York, 1924 * The Boys’ Life of
Theodore Roosevelt. Inscribed to the president’s sister Corinne Roosevelt Robinson. New York,
[1918] * Roosevelt in the Bad Lands. First trade edition, signed on dedication page, and
inscribed by dedicatee William Boyce Thompson. Boston, 1912 * 2 framed broadsides of
Hagedorn’s short piece on Roosevelt, “He Was Found Faithful.” New York, [1919?] and
[1926?].
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PAINE, ALBERT BIGELOW.
Captain Bill McDonald, Texas Ranger.
9
plates, most in color. 8vo, publisher’s cloth, minor wear; printed dust jacket, slightly
browned and worn.
New York, 1909
[300/400]
“
Special subscription edition.” With a foreword by President Roosevelt, addressed to
McDonald (“I shall always look back with pleasure to our wolf-hunt in Oklahoma”), also
printed in facsimile as a plate and on the dust jacket. Adams, Six-Guns 1669; Howes P14.
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WALL, BERNHARDT.
One Midnight with Roosevelt.
18 etchings. 4to,
paper-backed boards, spine ends chipped, otherwise minimal wear; #51 of 250, signed by
Wall on limitation page. In
1
/
4
morocco folding case.
New York, 1922
[200/300]
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