The White Company.
Chicago: Rand, McNally & Company, n.y. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Red varnished cloth with gilt lettering, rules and decoration. 362pp. Top edge gilt. Very good. Spine sunned. Item #45304
A tight and nice reprint edition, undated but circa turn-of-the-century. This historical novel set during the Hundred Years' War (1366-67) was first published in 1891. Interestingly, if trivial, front flyleaf bears the boldly pencilled ownership signature of C.W. Litchfield -- Cyrenus Wirt Litchfield (1834-1917), an Illinoisan who was supposedly the first person to enlist for Civil War duty from Du Page County, joining the Illinois volunteer cavalry company called Barker's Dragoons on April 19, 1862.
Price: $55.00