ROOSEVELT, Theodore. The Rough Riders. A History of the First United States Volunteer Cavalry . Philadelphia: Gebbie and Company, 1903. 8 o (8½ x 5¾ in.). Etched frontispiece portrait of Roosevelt in three states by W.H.W Bicknell (the first signed in pencil) and three plates each in three states by H.L.V. Parkhurst and M.E. Riddick. Brown morocco gilt, gilt-lettered on spine, top edge gilt, others uncut. Later edition, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT TO ARTHUR W. SAGER on the front flyleaf: "Dear Sager, In this book I tell how I tried to practice what I preached. Yours Theodore Roosevelt Feb 17 t h 1917." Roosevelt recruited and commanded the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry in 1898, and the flamboyant unit, popularly dubbed the Rough Riders served in Cuba. An especially bold charge up Kettle Hill, near San Juan Hill, received widespread press coverage, and made Roosevelt a national figure. In 1898, Roosevelt "began to dictate his war memoirs, inevitably called The Rough Riders . At $1,000 per serial installment (with the prospect of rich book royalties afterwar), the work was the most profitable he had ever undertaken" (Edmund Morris The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt , New York, 2001, p.722).
ROOSEVELT, Theodore. The Rough Riders. A History of the First United States Volunteer Cavalry . Philadelphia: Gebbie and Company, 1903. 8 o (8½ x 5¾ in.). Etched frontispiece portrait of Roosevelt in three states by W.H.W Bicknell (the first signed in pencil) and three plates each in three states by H.L.V. Parkhurst and M.E. Riddick. Brown morocco gilt, gilt-lettered on spine, top edge gilt, others uncut. Later edition, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT TO ARTHUR W. SAGER on the front flyleaf: "Dear Sager, In this book I tell how I tried to practice what I preached. Yours Theodore Roosevelt Feb 17 t h 1917." Roosevelt recruited and commanded the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry in 1898, and the flamboyant unit, popularly dubbed the Rough Riders served in Cuba. An especially bold charge up Kettle Hill, near San Juan Hill, received widespread press coverage, and made Roosevelt a national figure. In 1898, Roosevelt "began to dictate his war memoirs, inevitably called The Rough Riders . At $1,000 per serial installment (with the prospect of rich book royalties afterwar), the work was the most profitable he had ever undertaken" (Edmund Morris The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt , New York, 2001, p.722).
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