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

by Stephen Crane

$16,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1895. First edition, first printing, with title page dated 1895 and 4 pages of advertisements beginning Gilbert Parker's Best Books. iv , 233, 5 pp. Bound in publisher's tan buckram stamped in black, red, and gilt, yellow topstain, tan coated endpapers; lacking the very rare dust jacket. Near Fine with light soiling to cloth with light transfer of red from the interior of the custom

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