African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist.  By Theodore Roosevelt. With More Than Two-Hundred Illustrations from Photographs by Kermit Roosevelt and Other Members of the Expedition, and From Drawings by Philip & Goodwin.  Presumed 1st Trade Edition (after Limited Edition)with Scribner's seal on copyright page.  Published in 1910 by Charles Scribner's Sons of New York. 

I am revising this auction because someone contacted me saying that this was not the first edition, but the less illustrated edition, also published in 2010 was.  After two days of researching I honestly cannot say what the first trade edition is.  I have found many of the old time big wigs in ABAA selling this as the first/first.  I found one seller claiming the smaller book was the true first.  I consulted the volumes I have here, and I was surprised by this Roosevelt's book omission in the points of issue. My final conclusion is that I don't think anyone knows for sure what the true first/first is.

One of the most famous of all big-game hunting epics, this, with its larger than life sportsmen, was almost continuously in print until the 1930s. In British East Africa, Roosevelt hunted lion and plains game on the Kapiti Plains, while, in the Bondoni hill country, he collected rhinoceros and giraffe. On Juja Farm, his son Kermit faced leopard, while Teddy bagged rhino and hippopotamus. On the Kamiti River, buffalo were taken. Near the Sotik, additional rhino and lion were hunted, with elephant bagged near Mt. Kenia. On the Guaso Nyiro, giraffe and a variety of plains game were shot. Further adventures included hunting elephant near Lake Nyanza, rhino and plains game in the Lado, and eland on the Nile.

Condition:  Sound binding.  Hinges reinforced with binding tape.  Heavy wear to top and bottom of spine, spine edges and board tips.  Some staining to back board.  Text is tight and complete.  A couple small tears spotted in margins. Pages are very clean.  Well-illustrated.  9 1/2"  x  6  3/4" with 583 pages.