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ROOSEVELT (T). FROST (A.B), et al, illus.: Hunting Trips of a Ranchman. Sketches of Sport on the Northern Cattle Plains. Illustrated by A.B. Frost, R. Swain Gifford, J.C. Beard, Fannie E. Gifford, Henry Sandham. FIRST UK EDITION IN WHOLLY UNRESTORED PUBLISHER'S BINDING , Kegan Paul Trench & Co., 1886

Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with an engraved portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title-vignette and 25 fine full-page engraved illustrations in the text, half-title lightly spotted, fore-edges lightly dust-soiled; original red buckram, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt back, bevelled boards, uncut, black endpapers, hinges tender (but binding entirely sound) else an unusually well-preserved, bright, clean copy. With the fine nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate of Henry Ashworth James on front paste-down. First published in New York in the previous year. Nice copy of a very scarce hunting classic. (Book ref. 19702)  £210.00

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