Ranch Life and the Hunting-Trail
New York: The Century Co., 1888. Frederic Remington. First edition in second state binding. Hardcover. 186pp. Quarto [31 cm] Brown cloth covered boards with elaborately decorative brown ink and gilt stamped titles and designs on the spine and covers. Beveled edges. All edges gilt. Ex-library, with the usual library markings. Legitimately deaccessioned. Cloth at spine ends and corners frayed. Front hinge going. Text block cracked multiple times. Pages at the center are hanging on by a thread. Contemporary owner's inscription on the front free endpaper. Fair. Item #71284
Illustrated by the noted western art illustrator Frederic Remington. Remington (1861-1909) gained his reputation as an illustrator, mostly of western and military subjects, for most of the major magazines of the late 1880s and 1890s. He illustrated magazines such as Harper’s Weekly, Harper’s Monthly, Century, Collier’s, Outing, Boys’ Life, and Cosmopolitan.
Roosevelt abandoned his political work in 1884, due to his poor health. He invested part of the fortune he had inherited from his father in a cattle ranch in the Badlands of Dakota Territory, thinking that he would remain in the West for many years. He became a passionate hunter, especially of big game, and a strong believer in the wild outdoor life which brought him health and strength. In 1886 Roosevelt returned to New York, remarried, and once more plunged into politics.
Price: $850.00