Westcott, Edward Noyes. David: A Story of American Life. New York: Appleton, 1901.
Hardcover. Early printing. Amy Richards binding design. 7-3/4 by 5-1/4 inches, pp. 392 plus publisher's advertising at back; yellow calico-texture cloth, red and green lettering on cream scroll bordered in red and surrounded by green oak leaf and acorn wreath, signed "AR", i.e. Amy Richards; motif repeated on spine.
David Harum: A Story of American Life is a best-selling novel of 1898 whose principal legacy is the colloquial use of the term horse trading. Written by retired Syracuse, New York banker Edward Noyes Westcott, the work was rejected by six publishers before being accepted for publication by D. Appleton & Company. Published in the fall of 1898, some six months after the author's death, it sold an impressive 400,000 copies during the following year. Although the book contains the mandatory love story, the character and philosophy of the title character, small town banker and horse trader David Harum, expressed in the dialect of 19th-century rural central New York is the focus of the book. (Wikipedia) Basis for the stage play produced in 1900 as well as the 1915 black and white silent film directed by Allan Dwan and starring William H. Crane as David Harum, and later the 1934 talkie with Will Rogers.
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