ILLUSTRATIONS BY FREDERIC REMINGTON

DAVIS, RICHARD HARDING. CUBA IN WAR TIME. Illustrated by Frederic Remington. New York: R. H. Russell, 1897. 12mo. Original tan printed boards. T.e.g. Pages untrimmed. 143 pages. Twenty-four plates after illustrations by Frederic Remington. Minor wear to extremities, short closed tears to margin of one plate (not affecting image) and one page. Lacking the scarce dust jacket. Otherwise, a very good copy.

FIRST EDITION, by "the most widely known reporter of his generation" (DAB). Cuba In War Time was published for Davis "after a journey through the island, during which [he] traveled in four of the six provinces, visiting towns, seaports, plantations and military camps, and stopping for several days in all of the chief cities of Cuba, with the exception of Santiago and Pinar del Rio" (p. [9]). As events there were leading up to the Spanish-American war, Davis' account of Spanish atrocities clearly played to rising anti-Spanish sentiments in the United States. The illustrations for Cuba In War Time were "made by Mr. Frederic Remington, from personal observations while in Cuba, and from photographs, and descriptions furnished by eye-witnesses" (p. [8]). American Travellers Abroad D20. BT000054.

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