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The Red Cross Girl
by Davis, Richard Harding
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Hamden, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: A. L. Burt Company, 1912. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Wallace Morgan. 4 illustrations (including frontis), [12], 3-270p. plus [8] unnumbered pages of advertisements for this and other books published by Burt. Orignal green cloth lettered in white with a mounted color illustration of the attractive Red Cross girl (who in the story is not really a Red Cross girl) occupying a bit more than the right half of the front cover. dj. 19 cm. Loss of some of the white lettering on the backstrip but otherwise a bright copy in an attractive jacket. Burt reprint of a book first published by Charles Scribner's which contains seven short stories, the first of which is "The Red Cross Girl." Attractive jacket with the jacket image also on the front cover.
Synopsis
From the book:He was almost too good to be true. In addition, the gods loved him, and so he had to die young. Some people think that a man of fifty-two is middle-aged. But if R. H. D. had lived to be a hundred, he would never have grown old. It is not generally known that the name of his other brother was Peter Pan. Within the year we have played at pirates together, at the taking of sperm whales; and we have ransacked the Westchester Hills for gunsites against the Mexican invasion. And we have made lists of guns, and medicines, and tinned things, in case we should ever happen to go elephant shooting in Africa. But we weren't going to hurt the elephants. Once R. H. D. shot a hippopotamus and he was always ashamed and sorry. I think he never killed anything else. He wasn't that kind of a sportsman. Of hunting, as of many other things, he has said the last word. Do you remember the Happy Hunting Ground in "The Bar Sinister"? - "Where nobody hunts us, and there is nothing to hunt."
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Details
- Bookseller
- McBlain Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 93610
- Title
- The Red Cross Girl
- Author
- Davis, Richard Harding
- Illustrator
- Wallace Morgan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- A. L. Burt Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1912
Terms of Sale
McBlain Books
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About the Seller
McBlain Books
Biblio member since 2009
Hamden, Connecticut
About McBlain Books
Our second floor shop contains about 15,000 volumes and is open by appointment. Established 1970. We have been a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America for over 45 years. While there is a heavy emphasis in our stock on African Americana, Africa, Asia and the Middle East we also buy and sell antiquarian books on other subjects.
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- Fine
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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