2 Theodore Roosevelt first editions are documented on this shelf, from Hunting Trips of a Ranchman (1885) to The Winning of the West, Vol. I (1889) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Theodore Roosevelt title from later printings and book-club copies — the publisher and year to expect, the number-line or edition-statement conventions, and the tells that show up in online listings.

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Hunting Trips of a Ranchman — 1885 · G. P. Putnam's SonsNew York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1885. The true first edition is the "Medora Edition," a large-paper quarto limited to 500 numbered copies (about 11 inches tall), collating xvi, 318, [4] pages, bound in gilt-stamped brown cloth, top edge trimmed but fore-edge and tail left untrimmed, illustrated with India-proof impressions of etchings by R. Swain Gifford and Japan-proof impressions of drawings by J. C. Beard, plus…. The numbered, 500-copy Medora Edition of 1885 is the true first edition; the more commonly seen octavo Putnam trade printing dates from 1886. The 1886 and later Putnam trade printings, and 20th-century facsimile reprints, drop the large-paper format, the numbered limitation, and the proof-state plates that distinguish the Medora Edition.
The Winning of the West, Vol. I — 1889 · G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker PressNew York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1889, small octavo, collating [xiv], 352 pages, bound in green boards with a leather spine lettered in gilt, with maps (including folding maps) affixed to the rear panel rather than bound in as leaves. Volumes I and II of the projected multivolume history were published together in 1889, subtitled "From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776"; the….

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