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Theodore Roosevelt Works Elkhorn edition

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Title: The Works of Theodore Roosevelt
Author: Roosevelt, Theodore
Description: 26 (of 28) volumes. [Volumes I-XXVI]. Each illustrated with plates from paintings, engravings, etchings, drawings, photos, maps, etc., including frontispieces, with tissue-guards. 21.5x14.5 cm. (8½x5¾"), uniformly bound in three-quarters dark blue morocco and marbled boards, ruled in gilt, spines lettered in gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. No. 40 of 1250 hand-numbered sets (60 additional sets were originally not for sale). "Elkhorn Edition."With: The Naval War of 1812 (2 volumes); Hunting Trips of a Ranchman (2 volumes); Thomas Hart Benton; Gouverneur Morris; Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail; The Winning of the West (6 volumes); New York; The Wilderness Hunter (2 volumes); Hero Tales from American History; American Ideals (2 volumes); The Strenuous Life; The Rough Riders; Oliver Cromwell; An American Hunter; African Game Trails (2 volumes); and History as Literature. Lacks the final two volumes in this Elkhorn edition set, both of which comprise of minor later writings and were not issued for this edition series until 1920, seven years after Volume XXVI, as well as being one year after Roosevelt's death (perhaps done in his memory). The set present here contains all of the major works and key titles by Roosevelt.
Heading: Place Published: New York
Publisher: Scribner's
Date Published: 1906-1913