DAVIS, Richard Harding.

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The Novels and Stories. The Crossroads edition, number 13 of 256 sets, in a fine binding by Stikeman for Scribner. Laid in is a manuscript leaf in the author's hand, containing an excerpt from his collection Gallagher and Other Stories, perhaps a first draft. Six of the frontispieces are signed by their respective artists, including Charles Dana Gibson, creator of the "Gibson Girl". The Novels and Stories features the first editions in book form of his short stories The Log of the Jolly Polly, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, and The Man who had Everything. Introductions to the volumes are provided by Theodore Roosevelt, Gibson, Booth Tarkington, and others; as the collection was published shortly after Davis's death, their introductions also commemorate his life and works. Alongside Gibson, who signs the frontispieces for volumes III and IV, the frontispieces are signed by Howard Chandler Christy (Volume II), Frederic Dorr Steele (volumes VIII and X) and Wallace Morgan (Volume XI). In addition to fiction and drama, Davis left an indelible mark on the evolution of the role of the war correspondent in American journalism. His sometimes controversial, and not always disinterested dispatches from the Spanish American War, the Boer War, the Russo-Japanese War and the opening years of the Great War influenced public opinion and government policy, and established the reputations of both principals and units in the conflicts. His fashion sense also influenced a generation: he was the model f

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