CRANE, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage. NY: Appleton, 1895. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, printed on laid paper with top edge stained yellow, with the earliest advertisements headed "Gilbert Parker's Best Books."
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CRANE, Stephen (1871-1900). The Red Badge of Courage. New York: Appleton, 1895.
8vo. Title printed in red and black. Original tan buckram decorated in red, black and gold (soiling, a few small stains, spine slightly leaned). Provenance: "R" (neat pencil note, 31 December 1959, on pastedown).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, printed on laid paper with top edge stained yellow, with the earliest advertisements headed "Gilbert Parker's Best Books." “An extraordinary study of the common man amid the turmoil, clamor and distortion typified by war...its intensity, its startling yet inevitable descriptive phrase, struck a new note in American prose" (DAB). BAL 4071; Grolier American 98.
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