The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane
Illustrated by John Steuart Covey
Edition Press Collector's Edition.
Hardcover bound in full tan leather with raised bands on spine, 22kt gold gilt titles and handsome gilt decorations on boards and spine, moire silk endpapers with a matching silk ribbon placeholder bound in. 
Very Good Condition with strikingly beautiful royal red moire silk endpapers. 
 
 
The Red Badge of Courage is an 1895 war novel by American author Stephen Crane. It is considered one of the most influential works in American literature. The novel, a depiction on the cruelty of the American Civil War, features a young recruit who overcomes initial fears to become a hero on the battlefield. The book made Crane an international success. Although he was born after the war and had not at the time experienced battle firsthand, the novel is considered an example of Realism.