David Harum: A Story of American Life by Westcott, Edward Noyes - 1899

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1899. Later printing. Cloth. Good. Amy Richards (designer). Amy Richards (designer). Later printing. viii, 392, [8-ads] pages. 8vo. Publisher's yellow cloth decorated with embossed white red and dark green cover design. Front and back endpapers have pasted-in reviews and newspaper commentary on the book. Book is dirty overall, offered only for the period manuscript critical commentary. Previous owner name (Elizabeth T.?? Clarke) in pencil dated 1899 on front endpaper. Cloth. This copy of interest for the full page handwritten evaluation on the half-title verso penned by a "Richard Burton, Prof" in December 1899. In part: "As I write, 'David Harum' is the best selling story - and therefore book, since fiction still has a corner on literature. Why is this? Because it contains one thoroughly racy and enjoyable character...It has no plot worth mentioning, and but little construction... But the tale has a bona fide creation in David himself'; and this is enough to give it a remarkable, and deserved, popularity."

Presumably a later printing given that the copyright page is dated 1898, and the title page 1899. OCLC shows both dates. The book's designer is Amy Richards with her signature (a conjoined AR) on the front cover.