ROOSEVELT, THEODORE. [The Complete Writings]. Philadelphia: Gebbie and Company 1903. 22 vols., 8vo, steel-blue crushed levant morocco, covers with gilt dentelle border, at each corner an inlaid white and black morocco gilt American eagle surmounted by three inlaid red morocco stars, spines in six compartments, two gilt-lettered, gilt eagle ornament in the rest, turn-ins and salmon morocco doublures richly gilt with floral sprays and eagles, Roosevelt's gilt monogram at center, g.e., a few very small abrasions or scratches to covers. LIMITED "UNIFORM" EDITION, A PRESENTATION COPY FROM ROOSEVELT TO LOUIS OF BERGDOLLE, inscription dated 24 Jan. 1907 on front flyleaf of The Winning of the West (vol. I), 88 collotype or etched plates (four per volume, including frontispieces), each in three states: on mounted China paper (many signed in pencil by the artist), on Japanese vellum, and on thick card paper, most of the latter color-printed, lettered tissue guards; THIS COPY WITH APPROXIMATELY 350 ORIGINAL MARGINAL INK DRAWINGS by Daniel Garber (a few signed), as head- and tail-piece vignettes, marginal illustrations, or full-page illustrations overlapping the text, and with A FRAGMENT OF AN AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT IN ROOSEVELT'S HAND, one page, oblong 8vo (written lengthwise, possibly cut from a 4to leaf), bound into vol. I of "The Winning of the West", 11 lines and 2 lines of notes, three deletions or corrections, (22)

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ROOSEVELT, THEODORE. [The Complete Writings]. Philadelphia: Gebbie and Company 1903. 22 vols., 8vo, steel-blue crushed levant morocco, covers with gilt dentelle border, at each corner an inlaid white and black morocco gilt American eagle surmounted by three inlaid red morocco stars, spines in six compartments, two gilt-lettered, gilt eagle ornament in the rest, turn-ins and salmon morocco doublures richly gilt with floral sprays and eagles, Roosevelt's gilt monogram at center, g.e., a few very small abrasions or scratches to covers. LIMITED "UNIFORM" EDITION, A PRESENTATION COPY FROM ROOSEVELT TO LOUIS OF BERGDOLLE, inscription dated 24 Jan. 1907 on front flyleaf of The Winning of the West (vol. I), 88 collotype or etched plates (four per volume, including frontispieces), each in three states: on mounted China paper (many signed in pencil by the artist), on Japanese vellum, and on thick card paper, most of the latter color-printed, lettered tissue guards; THIS COPY WITH APPROXIMATELY 350 ORIGINAL MARGINAL INK DRAWINGS by Daniel Garber (a few signed), as head- and tail-piece vignettes, marginal illustrations, or full-page illustrations overlapping the text, and with A FRAGMENT OF AN AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT IN ROOSEVELT'S HAND, one page, oblong 8vo (written lengthwise, possibly cut from a 4to leaf), bound into vol. I of "The Winning of the West", 11 lines and 2 lines of notes, three deletions or corrections, (22)