SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE. By Richard Harding Davis, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1907.
 
Fiction Novel
 
A romance of America’s nascent imperial power, Richard Harding Davis’s Soldiers of Fortune recounts the adventures of Robert Clay, a mining engineer and sometime mercenary, and Hope Langham, the daughter of a wealthy American industrialist, as they become caught up in a coup in Olancho, a fictional Latin American republic.
 
Davis had success with his 1897 novel Soldiers of Fortune, which he turned into a play written by Augustus Thomas. His novel was filmed twice, in 1914 and in 1919.
 
The author Richard Harding Davis wrote six books; Soldiers of Fortune; Gallegher, Captain Macklin, Ranson's Folly, the Lion and the Unicorn, and the King's Jackal.
 
Burgundy cover with gilt spine title and gilt front center emblem art piece. Secure binding with clean pages and mild cover wear with light soil. About 7-3/4 x 5-1/4 with 348 pages.