The Red Cross Girl
by Davis, Richard Harding
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+/Good
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
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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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- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003410
- Title
- The Red Cross Girl
- Author
- Davis, Richard Harding
- Illustrator
- Wallace Morgan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- A.L. Burt
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1912
- Keywords
- Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction;
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