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Title: African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist Author: Roosevelt, Theodore Place: New York Publisher: Scribners Date: 1910 Description: 2 volumes. [xviii], 268; [x], [269]-529 pp. 50 illustrations, including a portrait frontispiece and a map. (8vo), original half pigskin and tan boards. No. 268 of 500 copies on Ruisdael paper. Signed by Theodore Roosevelt at the limitations statement. Shortly after he retired from the presidency in 1909, Roosevelt sailed for Africa, returning a year later. This work is the result of Roosevelt's ten-month hunting trip through Central and Northern Africa, from Mombasa through the mountain regions of British East Africa, to Victoria Nyanza, through the Congo and Sudan to Khartoum and on to Cairo via the Nile. Lot Amendments Condition: Professional repair to head of spine on Volume 1, some light wear to joints, front hinges cracking, offseting from leather to endpapers; very good. Item number: 237706