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NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1910. Fair (picture cover worn). Pictorial Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Illus. by C D Gibson.
Soldiers of Fortune by Davis, Richard Harding - 1897
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London: William Heinemann, 1897. First English edition, limited to twelve copies, of which this is No. 4. With 6 illustrations by Charles Dana Gibson. 288 pp. Printed by Billings and Sons, Guilford. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's pictorial buckram. Very Good. First English edition, limited to twelve copies, of which this is No. 4. With 6 illustrations by Charles Dana Gibson. 288 pp. Printed by Billings and Sons, Guilford. 1 vols. 8vo. ONE OF 12 COPIES, UNRECORDED ISSUE. Inscribed on the half-title "To Anthony Hope Hawkins / from the Duchess of Olancho", and signed below "Richard Harding Davis."
The fictional Latin American republic of this novel is Olancho, and the presentation suggests the influence of Hawkins upon Davis.
The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) by Anthony Hope Hawkins is the defining (and best) example of the Ruritanian novel of intrigue in small fictional European principalities, involving double-crossing, power grabs, and forbidden romance at royal courts. Richard Harding Davis took up the form with his "Graustark" series; Edgar Rice Burroughs and John Buchan also wrote in this tradition.
Soldiers of Fortune was the most successful of the novels of Richard Harding Davis. In 1899, 114,000 copies were in print; in 1902, 135,000. It was also made into a successful play. BAL 4525 note (this issue not mentioned); Quinby 14 (not mentioning this issue)
The fictional Latin American republic of this novel is Olancho, and the presentation suggests the influence of Hawkins upon Davis.
The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) by Anthony Hope Hawkins is the defining (and best) example of the Ruritanian novel of intrigue in small fictional European principalities, involving double-crossing, power grabs, and forbidden romance at royal courts. Richard Harding Davis took up the form with his "Graustark" series; Edgar Rice Burroughs and John Buchan also wrote in this tradition.
Soldiers of Fortune was the most successful of the novels of Richard Harding Davis. In 1899, 114,000 copies were in print; in 1902, 135,000. It was also made into a successful play. BAL 4525 note (this issue not mentioned); Quinby 14 (not mentioning this issue)
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- Format/Binding With 6 illustrations by Charles Dana Gibson. 288 pp. Printed by Billings and Sons, Guilford. 1 vols. 8vo
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- Date Published 1897
- Keywords American
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NY: Charles Scribners Sons, 1920. Pictorial Cover. Fair to Good/No Jacket. Illus. by G D Gibson.
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Good. Good. No dust jacket. G+ very solid nice pictorial cover
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. CJ3 - Cocked, lightly soiled, wrinkling, chipping, crease, some tears, tanning, bumped on some corners, lightly loose hinge, modetate discoloration, and shelf wear.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Gibson, C. D.. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Soldiers of Fortune (The Novels and Stories of Richard Harding Davis)
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1919. Hardcover. Near Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 358 pp. One illustration has come loose and is laid in. The binding is tight and square, and the text is clean.
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NY: Charles Scriber's Sons, 1904. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. illustrated **(2)**. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by C D Gibson.
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Scribners, 1898. hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. Hardcover solid no dust 1897 possibly first edition if not very early
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New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1897. Harcover, mustard cloth with image of woman on front board and lettering stamped in black and gold, spine lettering in black. Illustrated with 6 plates by C.D. Gibson. Cloth lightly mottled at backstrip and covers moderately dusty from age. No name, no book-plate, etc. A sound, atttractive, near very good copy.. First Edition. Pictorial Cloth. Near Very Good. Illus. by C.D. Gibson. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons., 1906. Uniformly bound Davis series. Copyright 1897 Scribner's.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Oval blind stamp on title page: Silsby free Public Library, Charlestown NH. Edge of library check-out page on back end paper remaining. Boards separating at title page and back end paper. Old tape repair before.... Gibson, C. D. (Illustrations by).. 1 Burgundy cloth over boards. Gold Scribner icon on cover; gold spine titles. Gilt top page block. [8], 348 p., [6] leaves of grayscale plates 20 cm. Late 19th century fiction, publisher series: themes of debutantes, dinner parties, and a visit from a man of experience in Mexico, mines, railroads, horseback riding, and a soldier who had worn uniforms, but not yet of his own country. Richard Harding Davis was a traveling journalist and adventurer.
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SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. HC. good+, lightly soiled cloth as usual (hardcover). ill. by Charles Dana Gibson. Frontispiece and five B&W plates, complete. 364pp.
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