Description
Up For Sale Today is
Cleared For Strange Ports
by
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt, Richard Derby, Kermit Roosevelt
Hardcover. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1927. 254 pgs. Illustrated by numerous photographs taken along the journey by members of the Family. First Edition/First Printing.
Ex-Library from Washington DC's Western High School, The Library of Camp Pendleton, VA and the Convalescent Hospital at Fort Story, VA. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Stamped NOT US PROPERTY TO THE VERSO PAGE. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid.
First edition travel accounts by the Roosevelt clan! Tiger hunting trip by Kermit, as well as his account of hunting in Korea, and along the Trans-Siberian Railway, as well as bear hunting on Montague Island, Alaska. "The Odyssey of a Grandmother" by Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Sr.; "Hunting Amid Korean Snows, " "On the Soviet Trans-Siberian, " "Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright, " and "Christmas Week in Mowgli Land" by Kermit Roosevelt; "With Rife and Camera on the Kenai" by Richard Derby (Theodore Roosevelt's son-in-law); and "From the Land Where the Elephants Are" by Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt.
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| folio | 2º or fo | 2 | 4 | 12 × 19 | 30.5 × 48 | |
| quarto | 4º or 4to | 4 | 8 | 9½ × 12 | 24 × 30.5 | |
| octavo | 8º or 8vo | 8 | 16 | 6 × 9 | 15 × 23 | |
| duodecimo or twelvemo | 12º or 12mo | 12 | 24 | 5 × 7⅜ | 12.5 × 19 | |
| sextodecimo or sixteenmo | 16º or 16mo | 16 | 32 | 4 × 6¾ | 10 × 17 | |
| octodecimo or eighteenmo | 18º or 18mo | 18 | 36 | 4 × 6½ | 10 × 16.5 | |
| trigesimo-secundo or thirty-twomo | 32º or 32mo | 32 | 64 | 3½ × 5½ | 9 × 14 | |
| quadragesimo-octavo or forty-eightmo | 48º or 48mo | 48 | 96 | 2½ × 4 | 6.5 × 10 | |
| sexagesimo-quarto or sixty-fourmo | 64º or 64mo | 64 | 128 | 2 × 3 | 5 × 7.5 | |
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