Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage. D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1895.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Second state with broken type on Page 225 and ads in back beginning with this title. Very good with soiling to boards and rubbing to spine and edges. Neat professional repair to spine ends and interior hinges. Slight soiling and wear to endpapers (including faint remnant of drawing on rear endpaper), but text clean and unmarked. A nice copy.

Seller: Magus Books of Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.

Crane, Stephen.. The Red Badge of Courage.. New York. D. Appleton and Company. 1895., 1895.

Price: US$1500.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition with matching dates of 1895 on the title and copyright pages. Second printing with "The Red Badge of Courage" listed as the first title in the 4 pages of Appleton Ads at the rear of the book. Also with the battered type in the word "lated" on the last line of p. 225. Still a very scarce copy published in the first edition year of 1895. With the previous owner's name in ink at the top of the free front endpaper: "W.H. Forbes. Milton 1897." Perhaps the forebear of this distinguished Forbes: William Hathaway Forbes was born in Milton, Massachusetts in 1902 and attended Milton Academy and Harvard College. Forbes joined the staff of the Harvard Fatigue Laboratory (the "LabÓ) in 1930 and in 1935 served as a member of the LabÕs International High Altitude Expedition to Aucanquilcha in the Chilean Andes, an expedition staffed by David Bruce Dill (then the ÒunofficialÓ director of the Lab) and Ancel Keyes (the expedition leader). This expedition was undertaken to study blood chemistry, the effects of exercise on respiration and circulation, and mental impairments at high altitudes. A relatively worn and soiled binding; in the original finely woven linen cloth stamped in red and black on the front boards and on the spine. The illuminated letter "T" is very brightly gilded. There is light wear and rubbing to the top and bottom of the spine ends but without any loss of cloth. The spine is darkened and lightly stained as are the front and rear boards. Internally the book is clean and tight with clean light brown endpapers. The front hinge is very good, but the rear hinge is beginning to split. First Edition with matching dates of 1895 on the title and copyright pages. Second printing with "The Red Badge of Courage" listed as the first title in the 4 pages of Appleton Ads at the rear of the book. Also with the battered type in the word "lated" on the last line of p. 225. Still a very scarce copy published in the first edition year of 1895.

Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.

Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage. D. Appleton & Company, NY, 1895.

Price: US$2850.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, first issue - very good lacking a dust jacket. Type is perfect on page 225, four pages of ads beginning with three Gilbert Parker titles and ending with a Christian Reid title. Brown buckram cloth with lettering and designs in red, black and gilt. Yellowish green topstain is fairly bright. Owner's neat signature on front endpaper, water lines visible on front endpapers and bottom edge of front board. There is a faint dampstain at the very foredge of the first 110 pages, getting progressively smaller toward the middle of the book. The spine of the book is a little darkened in places, but perfectly legible. The book is tight and square, with very little wear to the buckram cloth, just at the foot of the spine. The slight dampstain makes this copy very good; otherwise a beautifully preserved copy.

Seller: Tulsa Books, Tulsa, OK, U.S.A.

Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage.. D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1895.

Price: US$7200.00 + shipping

Description: First edition, first printing with page [235] advertising the three works of Gilbert Parker's Best Books, and the last page of advertisements (page 238) ending with The Land of the Sun, by Christian Reid; last gathering, including ads on laid paper. Octavo, original publisher's tan cloth. In very good condition. From theÂlibraryÂofÂJean Hersholt, actor and presidentÂofÂthe AcademyÂof Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1945-1949, with his bookplate. Hersholt's best-remembered film roles include Marcus Schouler inÂErich von Stroheim's 1924ÂGreedÂand Shirley Temple's beloved grandfather in theÂ1937 film versionÂof the 1880 children's book,ÂHeidi, written by Swiss authorÂJohanna Spyri. During his long career in the movies, his roles ran the gamut from early silent villains to secondary parts in which his mild Danish accent and pleasant voice suited him to depict a succession of benevolent fathers, doctors, professors, and European noblemen. Hersholt's last role was in the 1955 movieÂRun for Cover. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise case. A nice example with noted provenance. An abbreviated version of The Red Badge of Courage was first serialized in The Philadelphia Press in December 1894. This version of the story, which was culled to 18,000 words by an editor specifically for the serialization, was reprinted in newspapers across America, establishing Crane's fame. Crane biographer John Berryman wrote that the story was published in at least 200 small city dailies and approximately 550 weekly papers. In October 1895, a version, which was 5,000 words shorter than the original manuscript, was printed in book form by D. Appleton & Company. “Stephen Crane, with no more military experience than his lively imagination could cull from Battles and Leaders of the Civil War and from Tolstoy, told so graphically how a raw recruit feels in battle that The Red Badge of Courage must be regarded as the first artistic approach to the war. It pictures no historical figure or event, except that Chancellorsville is its setting, but its sense of the helplessness and meaninglessness of the common soldier, maneuvered by superiors and circumstance, is a brilliant achievement in impression… Its illusion of authentic experience has made it a minor classic of the war” (Leisy, 158-59).

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.

Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage. D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1895.

Price: US$7500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, first printing with title page dated 1895, unbroken type on page 225 and publisher's ads beginning with three Gilbert Parker titles and ending with a Christian Reid title. Bound in publisher's original buckram cloth decorated in red and gilt, lettered in red and black, with yellow topstain; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good. Light lean to binding. Cloth toned and lightly soiled and rubbed. Former owner rubber stamp twice upside-down to front paste down, at least once in text and heavily effaced from title page and final page of text. Several stretches of marginal soiling and spotting.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage. D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1895.

Price: US$7500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Edition, First Issue printed on laid paper with the publisher's ads at the back of the book starting with "Gilbert Parker's Best Books" with no mention of Red Badge of Courage. A beautiful copy. This book is the TRUE FIRST EDITION, with 1895 year printed on title page, and 1894 date on copyright page. Later printings have 1896 on title page. The book is in great shape. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp with minor wear. There is NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a wonderful copy of this First Edition, First Printing. We buy Stephen Crane First Editions.

Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.

CRANE, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage. D. Appleton and Co, New York, 1895.

Price: US$15000.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition, First Issue with correct issue points and ads. Octavo, original cloth and decorative dustjacket. Considered a classic of Civil War literature, exceptionally scarce in dustjacket. Very Good, cloth with general darkening and sporadic surface erosion to cloth which is common for this title, contemporary gift inscription (from a Pennsylvania man to his Tennessee friend) in Very Good original 19th Century dustjacket, with some chipping at top spine end, expected wear and soiling, light stain at top rear panel.

Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.