The Red Badge of Courage, A Facsimile Edition of the Manuscript; Edited with an Introduction and Apparatus by Fredson Bowers; 2 vols.
Washington DC: NCR/Microcard Editions, Bruccoli Clark Book, 1973. First printing. Hardcover. Two volumes, complete. 1000 hand-numbered copies of this set were produced. First edition, 1973. Cloth hardcovers with paper spine-labels in cloth slipcase, clean unmarked text, New copy, still in original plastic. No ownership marks, but this copy was owned by the publisher, Matthew Bruccoli (whom the book is also dedicated to). Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1931-2008) was the foremost F. Scott Fitzgerald scholar and bibliographer of his time. Additionally, he wrote on, and edited critical editions of Hemingway, Hammett, Cozzens, Thomas Wolfe, John O'Hara, and Vladimir Nabokov. He studied bibliography under the tutelage of Fredson Bowers and worked with Jacob Blanck on the Bibliography of American Literature. He was responsible for the republication and rediscovery of dozens of forgotten American novels, and went on to be the editor and publisher of the 400+ volume Dictionary of Literary Biography, and was the chief editor of the University of Pittsburgh Press bibliography series. New. Item #s0008192
ISBN: 0910971281
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