Jun 19, 2014 - Sale 2355

Sale 2355 - Lot 55

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,800 - $ 2,500
CRANE, STEPHEN. The Red Badge of Courage. Title-page in red and black. 8vo, publisher's pale yellow buckram, spine darkened, few small stains and overall finger-soiling to covers, one tiny nick to front joint; tan-coated endpapers, top edges stained yellow; bookplate of The University Club, Denver, atop an earlier label on front pastedown; in chemise and 1/4 morocco slipcase. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1895

Additional Details

first edition, with "Gilbert Parker's Best Books" on p.[235] advertising three works by Parker, and the last page of advertisements ending with The Land of the Sun, with no mention of this title, Second Issue with "congratulated" (p.225) in broken type. BAL 4071.