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SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE
by RICHARD HARDING DAVIS
- Used
- very good
- Condition
- VERY GOOD/NO DJ
- Seller
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Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
Gossett & Dunlap, New York 1909, 1909. Gossett & Dunlap, New York 1909, Copyright, 1897 by Charles Scribner's Sons. Red cloth over boards, picture on front cover, white lettering. VERY GOOD/NO DJ. A romance of America's nascent imperial power, Richard Harding Davis's Soldiers of Fortune recounts the adventures of Robert Clay, a mining engineer and sometime mercenary, and Hope Langham, the daughter of a wealthy American industrialist, as they become caught up in a coup in Olancho, a fictional Latin American republic. When the coup, organized by corrupt politicians and generals, threatens the American-owned Valencia Mining Company, Clay organizes his workers and the handful of Americans visiting the mine into a counter-coup force. Written on the eve of the Spanish-American War, Soldiers of Fortune casts the young American as the dashing, hypermasculine hero of the new military and economic. A huge best-seller, the novel did its part to push the nation into war against Spain, and stands as one of the most important texts in the literature of American imperialism. (google). Gossett & Dunlap, New York 1909, Copyright, 1897 by Charles Scribner's Sons. With illustrations by C. D. GIBSON. Very Good, solid, slight pulling of the spine at top, text clean and bright, no writing nor soiling. Red cloth over boards, picture on front cover, white lettering. some discoloration on back cover.
Synopsis
"It is so good of you to come early," said Mrs. Porter, as Alice Langham entered the drawing-room. "I want to ask a favor of you. I'm sure you won't mind. I would ask one of the debutantes, except that they're always so cross if one puts them next to men they don't know and who can't help them, and so I thought I'd just ask you, you're so good-natured. You don't mind, do you?"
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- Bookseller
- YJS BOXES OF BOOKS
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1055
- Title
- SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE
- Author
- RICHARD HARDING DAVIS
- Format/Binding
- Red cloth over boards, picture on front cover, white lettering
- Book Condition
- Used - VERY GOOD
- Jacket Condition
- NO DJ
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Gossett & Dunlap, New York 1909, Copyright, 1897 by Charles Scri
- Publisher
- Gossett & Dunlap, New York 1909
- Date Published
- 1909
- Keywords
- bc bib web #1205 Item #1055
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30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives improperly or damaged.
YJS BOXES OF BOOKS specializes in Autobiographies and Biographies of the Rich and Famous, First and Signed First Editions, Historical: Non-Fiction and Fiction, People, Places and Things, Modern Mysteries and Thrillers, Rare and Vintage
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