The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. New York: Cann, McCann & Geoghegan, 1979. Hardbound in price-clipped, mylar-protected dust jacket. 886 pages. Illustrated, bibliography, index. The first volume, which won a Pulitzer Prize, of the standard life of TR (in three volumes, each of which is a stand-alone effort). Sweeping and the best life of a truly great man. Book and dust jacket good. $15. Note this book is from the Fender collection and carries the owner’s signature on the front endpaper along with his blind stamp.