The Red Cross Girl
by Davis, Richard Harding
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Cooperstown, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Good with no dust jacket. 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine is beginning to crack at copyright page, and front endpaper. Pages are yellowing. Spine is beginning to chip. Covers have some light wear. ; BAL 4557 .
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
- Willis Monie Books - ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 328199
- Title
- The Red Cross Girl
- Author
- Davis, Richard Harding
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1912
- Keywords
- Fiction, BAL
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Willis Monie Books - ABAA
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Cooperstown, New York
About Willis Monie Books - ABAA
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