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2 octavo volumes. Includes:

• African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist. With map. Illustrations from photographs, drawings, etc. Original tan cloth lettered in gilt. Light wear to cloth, sunning to spine and top edge; gift inscription; very good or better. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. First  Edition.
• East of the Sun and West of the Moon. Illustrated with photographs by Kermit Roosevelt. Navy cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. A bit of light rubbing to extremities, bookplate; near fine. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. First Edition.

Shortly after he retired from the presidency in 1909, Roosevelt sailed for Africa, returning a year later. African Game Trails is the result of Roosevelt's ten-month hunting trip through Central and Northern Africa, from Mombasa through the mountain regions of British East Africa, to Victoria Nyanza, through the Congo and Sudan to Khartoum and on to Cairo via the Nile. East of the Sun...is an account of an adventurous trip to Kashmir, Turkestan, and the Himalayan Passes, by the sons of the Rough Riding president.