The Novels & Stories of Richard Harding Davis (11)

Hardcover. Very Good. Eleven of twelve illustrated popular volumes in uniform series, VG, green covers which include: the picturesque adventure writer's Ranson's Folly (1916), Gallegher and other stories (1916), The White Mice (1916), Captain Macklin, his memoirs (1916-split at top of spine), vam Bibber and Others (1916), The Exiles and other stories (1919), the Man Who Could Not Lose (1919), The Bar Sinister (1916-introduction by Winston Churchill), The Red Cross Girl (1919-introduction by Gouverneur Morris), Soldiers of Fortune (1919) and The Lost Road (1916). He died in 1916. Davis was an American journalist and writer of fiction and drama, known foremost as the first American war correspondent to cover the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War. His writing greatly assisted the political career of Theodore Roosevelt. He also played a major role in the evolution of the American magazine. His influence extended to the world of fashion, and he is credited with making the clean-shaven look popular among men at the turn of the 20th century.