The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War

by Stephen Crane

$7,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896. Early printing of the first edition but not the first , with title page dated 1896. iv , 233, 1 , 4 ads pp. Bound in publisher's tan buckram stamped in black, red, and gilt. Good, heavy foxing and some soiling to boards, former owner's name on front free endpaper, tidemark to inner margins of pages towards end. In the very rare original dust jacket, which appears to have been the

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