THE ROUGH RIDERS

Olive cloth with gilt lettering and medal in gilt on front cover, top edge gilt. Illustrated with photographs. Roosevelt's classic account of his experience as Colonel of the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry, the "Rough Riders," during the Spanish American War including his heroic charge of San Juan Hill, ultimately catapulting him to the Governorship of New York, the Vice Presidency, and the White House. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper to Anna "Nannie" Cabot Mills Davis Lodge, wife of Henry Cabot Lodge: "Dear Nannie,/I send this/book to you because, next/to my own family, it was/of you and yours that I/thought most while I was/before Santiago./Ever your friend/Theodore Roosevelt/May 18th 1899." Outstanding Association Copy. Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924), U.S. Congressional Representative, Senator from Massachusetts, and historian. According to the CONCISE DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY, Lodge's judgment on international affairs was highly valued by Theodore Roosevelt. This is descended from the Lodge family. Baron Jean-Paul Gabriel Marie de Streel (1932 - 2008) was the son of Belgium diplomat Baron Edouard François Marie Joseph de Streel and Helena Constance Lodge, daughter of poet George Cabot "Bay" Lodge. George Lodge served successfully in the SpanishAmerican War as a naval cadet and was a close friend of Theodore Roosevelt, who penned a fond introduction for the posthumous 1911 collection POEMS AND DRAMAS OF GEORGE CABOT LODGE. Internally clean with Roosevelt's writing dark and bold, later owner signature of Jean-Paul de Streel just below Roosevelt's inscription; spine and top portion above title on front cover mildly sunned, bottom of spine and corners lightly bumped. Near Fine.…