The Roosevelt Bears: Their Travels and Adventures
New York: Barse & Hopkins, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Overszied hardcover in grey/green paper covered boards with tipped on color illustration of the two title bears; dark green cloth spine. 153 pp. Color frontispiece and six additional full page color plates as well as numerous drawings throughout the text by V. Floyd Campbell. A very good example, hinges neatly reinforced, some light repair to the front free endpaper and recto (unprinted) side of the frontispiece, short closed tear to the lower margin of plate at p. 26. The adventures of Teddy B. and Teddy G. "The Roosevelt Bears" , anthropromorphic bears created around 1905 for children and inspired by a tie-in with then-President Theodore Roosevelt. This enormously popular series continued until 1921 (despite the fact that Eaton died in 1916 and TR ledt office in 1909 and died in January, 1919. Very Good. Item #E17151
Price: $175.00