8vo (9 7/8 x 6 5/8 in.; 252 x 167 mm). Original mounted albumen photograph portrait frontispiece photograph portrait of Grand Duke Alexis; bit of foxing to title-page and frontispiece. Original brown pebbled morocco, covers gilt with a French fillet border, spine gilt in six compartments, marbled endpapers, gilt edges; extremities rubbed. 

8vo (9 7/8 x 6 5/8 in.; 252 x 167 mm). Original mounted albumen photograph portrait frontispiece photograph portrait of Grand Duke Alexis; bit of foxing to title-page and frontispiece. Original brown pebbled morocco, covers gilt with a French fillet border, spine gilt in six compartments, marbled endpapers, gilt edges; extremities rubbed.
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FIRST EDITION, ONE OF APPROXIMATELY 100 COPIES of this account of Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich's goodwill tour of North America. Perhaps the best-remembered episode of Alexi's visit was a grand buffalo hunt led by Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer, and attended by General Philip Sheridan, General Edward Ord, Buffalo Bill Cody, and Texas Jack Omohundro.