The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane [ILLUSTRATED LIMITED EDITION] 1944 • The Heritage Press

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane with illustrations by John Steuart Curry

ILLUSTRATED LIMITED EDITION [1944] THE LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB • HERITAGE PRESS

Beautiful oversized hardcover with patterned pictorial boards.  Includes original insert.  Missing slip case. 

Book is in excellent condition.  Light shelf wear.  Reads beautifully.

First published in 1895, America's greatest novel of the Civil War was written before 21-year-old Stephen Crane had "smelled even the powder of a sham battle." But this powerful psychological study of a young soldier's struggle with the horrors, both within and without, that war unleashes strikes the reader with its undeniable realism and with its masterful description of the moment-by-moment riot of emotions felt by men under fire.

Ernest Hemingway called the novel an American classic, and Crane's genius is as much apparent in his sharp, colorful prose as in his ironic portrayal of an episode of war so intense, so immediate, so real that the terror of battle becomes our own ... in a masterpiece so unique that many believe modern American fiction began with Stephen Crane.