1916 The Novels and Stories of Richard Harding Davis (Crossroads Edition)

Description

Leather Binding

The 'Crossroads' edition of this literary collection, comprising the novels and stories of American author Richard Harding Davis.

Complete in twelve volumes. 

This set uniformly bound in half crushed morocco and cloth boards. With lovely gilt decorations to the spines.

Davis was a journalist and writer of romantic novels and short stories, known foremost as the first American war correspondent to cover the Spanish-American war, the Second Boer War and World War I. He also played a major role in the evolution of the American magazine and gained his reputation through reporting noteworthy events such as the first electrocution of a criminal, and controversial subjects such as abortion and suicide. 

This set includes his fiction works, including his early successes 'Gallegher and Other Stories' and popular novels 'Ranson's Folly'.

With a frontispiece to each volume. 

The entirety of this set includes the following:

Vol I - Van Bibber and Others 
Vol II - The Exiles and Other Stories 
Vol III - Gallegher and Other Stories
Vol IV - Soldiers of Fortune 
Vol V - Captain Macklin: His Memoirs 
Vol VI - Ranson's Folly 
Vol VII - The White Mice 
Vol VIII - The Scarlet Car 
Vol IX - The Bar Sinister 
Vol X - The Man Who Could Not Lose 
Vol XI - The Red Cross Girl 
Vol XII - The Lost Road 

From the library of Annie Pearson, Viscountess Cowdray (1860-1932) an English society hostess, suffragist and philanthropist. She was nicknamed the "Fairy Godmother of Nursing" through her promotion of district nursing throughout England and Scotland. She served as the President of the Women's Liberal Federation from 1921 until 1923 and was also the Honorary Treasurer of the Liberal Women's Suffrage Union.