Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography.

ROOSEVELT, Theodore.

Item Number: 139473

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1924.

Early printing of the 26th President of the United States autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, with numerous in-text illustrations. Presentation copy, inscribed by Corinne Roosevelt on the front free endpaper, “For George H. Pendleton with every good wish from Theodore Roosevelts’ sister Corinne Roosevelt Robinson June 1924.” Corinne Roosevelt Robinson was an American poet, writer and lecturer. She was also the younger sister of President Theodore Roosevelt and an aunt of future First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt. In very good condition.

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.