Crane, Stephen | The most celebrated novel of the Civil War

The Passion of American Collectors: Property of Barbara and Ira Lipman

Crane, Stephen

The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1895

8vo (183 x 123 mm) Top edge stained yellow, text on laid paper, first issue advertisements at rear; no spotting, clean and tight. Publisher's oatmeal buckram, lettered and ornamented in red, black, and gold; a few very faint stains to cloth, spine a touch faded. Morocco slipcase.

First edition, first issue of Crane's most important work. "An extraordinary study of the common man amid the turmoil, clamor and distortion typified by war ... its intensity, its startling yet inevitable descriptive phrase, struck a new note in American prose." (DAB)

REFERENCE

BAL 4071; Grolier, American, 98