SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE
Gossett & Dunlap, New York 1909, 1909. Gossett & Dunlap, New York 1909, Copyright, 1897 by Charles Scribner's Sons. Red cloth over boards, picture on front cover, white lettering. A romance of America’s nascent imperial power, Richard Harding Davis’s Soldiers of Fortune recounts the adventures of Robert Clay, a mining engineer and sometime mercenary, and Hope Langham, the daughter of a wealthy American industrialist, as they become caught up in a coup in Olancho, a fictional Latin American republic. When the coup, organized by corrupt politicians and generals, threatens the American-owned Valencia Mining Company, Clay organizes his workers and the handful of Americans visiting the mine into a counter-coup force. Written on the eve of the Spanish-American War, Soldiers of Fortune casts the young American as the dashing, hypermasculine hero of the new military and economic. A huge best-seller, the novel did its part to push the nation into war against Spain, and stands as one of the most important texts in the literature of American imperialism. (google). VERY GOOD / NO DJ. Item #1055
Gossett & Dunlap, New York 1909, Copyright, 1897 by Charles Scribner's Sons. With illustrations by C. D. GIBSON. Very Good, solid, slight pulling of the spine at top, text clean and bright, no writing nor soiling. Red cloth over boards, picture on front cover, white lettering. some discoloration on back cover.
Price: $80.00