Great Battles of the World
by Stephen Crane
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
E-347. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 12mo. Published by Chapman & Hall Limited, London, UK, 1901 1901. Iv, 278 pgs. First UK Edition/First Printing. Bound in decorated red cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's gift inscription present to the half-title page. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Crane dreamed up the idea of dramatizing great battles as a money-making scheme: "such sure quick money," he wrote his agent Pinker. Crane was very familiar with recent battles: since 1895 he had been a war correspondent in Cuba and in Greece, and had just begun reporting on the Boer War when he died of consumption in mid-1900 (in the Black Forest, where he had gone to seek the cure). He chose battles for their "picturesque and theatric qualities." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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- Last Exit Books (US)
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- 67333
- Title
- Great Battles of the World
- Author
- Stephen Crane
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Place of Publication
- E-347
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- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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- Cloth
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- 12mo
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