Description
The first edition of The Cuban and Porto Rican Campaigns by Richard Harding Davis, published in 1898, a firsthand account of the Rough Riders and Theodore Roosevelt in Cuba.
Octavo, xiii, [1], 360pp, [map], [4pp ads]. Publisher’s yellow pictorial cloth. The first state with “Gallagher” misspelled on the title page, later corrected to “Gallegher.” Illustrated with frontispiece, plates, and portraits. Complete with three maps, including a fold-out color map of Cuba at the rear.
(BAL 4529) (Quinby 20)
Includes the publisher’s scarce dust jacket, notable chipping and losses, prior archival tape repairs to verso, scarce in any condition.
Davis’s account of the Spanish-American War campaigns in Cuba and Puerto Rico, with chapters on the naval campaign, Santiago, San Juan, the Rough Riders, General Shafter, General Miles, and the Puerto Rican campaign.
