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The Engelhard copy, in dust jacket
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Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage
The Engelhard copy, in dust jacket
CRANE, Stephen (1871-1900). The Red Badge of Courage. New York: Appleton, 1895.
First edition, first printing, of Crane’s classic, the Jane Engelhard copy in original dust jacket. “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). With the earliest state of the advertisements. BAL 4071; Grolier American 98.
Octavo. Title-page printed in black and red, 4 pp. advertisements. Original cloth lettered in red, black and gilt, top edge yellow (a few spots to cloth); original printed dust jacket (spine panel darkened, spine panel folds and ends and flap fold ends with reinforcements on verso, a little staining and wear at flap folds); red quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: ownership inscription dated 24 January 1895 – Jane Engelhard (Cragwood book label; her sale, Christie’s New York, 27 October 1995, lot 26).
The Engelhard copy, in dust jacket
CRANE, Stephen (1871-1900). The Red Badge of Courage. New York: Appleton, 1895.
First edition, first printing, of Crane’s classic, the Jane Engelhard copy in original dust jacket. “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). With the earliest state of the advertisements. BAL 4071; Grolier American 98.
Octavo. Title-page printed in black and red, 4 pp. advertisements. Original cloth lettered in red, black and gilt, top edge yellow (a few spots to cloth); original printed dust jacket (spine panel darkened, spine panel folds and ends and flap fold ends with reinforcements on verso, a little staining and wear at flap folds); red quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: ownership inscription dated 24 January 1895 – Jane Engelhard (Cragwood book label; her sale, Christie’s New York, 27 October 1995, lot 26).
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