With Both Armies in South Africa
by Davis, Richard Harding
- Used
- Near Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Chico, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Son, 1900. An important eyewitness account of the Boer War by the ace war reporter and popular novelist Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916). This is a Near Fine copy of the First American Edition. Illustrated with photographs. 237 pages with four pages adverts in the rear; clean and very fresh textblock; no foxing. Bright red decorative cloth binding with black lettering. Blindstamped on the front cover with the flags of both belligerents. Extremely faint water stain on the front cover and some chipping of the white filling of the Boer flag; else a Fine copy. Lacking a dustjacket; in an archival plastic protector. The best copy Quercus has seen. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First American Edition.. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002772
- Title
- With Both Armies in South Africa
- Author
- Davis, Richard Harding
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First American Edition.
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Son
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1900
- Bookseller catalogs
- History;
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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- Jacket
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- Chipping
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