Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography.

ROOSEVELT, Theodore.

Item Number: 58006

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913.

First edition of the 26th President of the United States autobiography. Octavo, original blue cloth, paper portrait label, top edge gilt. With frontispiece portrait, one folding table, and numerous in-text illustrations. In very good condition. A nice example.

Theodore Roosevelt began his career as a writer while still a student at Harvard. “By Roosevelt’s graduation the qualities that were to attract, repel, or bemuse his countrymen for four decades became pronounced. He abounded in physical and mental energy, acted often on impulse and at times on shrewd calculation, and generally exuded warmth, affection, and charm. He possessed the gift of words, though he limited their flow with difficulty; and even when he was moralizing, his force and imagery made him unfailingly interesting” (ANB). His autobiography was published six years before his death.