New York: Chelsea House, (1925).
Price: $350.00
Hardcover. First edition. Very modest wear, just about fine, in an attractive example of the scarce dustwrapper, lacking the rear flap and with some creases from being folded into the book. The author's own copy, Initialed by him with a note on the title page, below the title: "First published in The Popular Magazine, Dec. 20, 1923 under pseudonym of George Parsons Broadfoot. R.K." A mystery, listed in *Hubin*, and basis for the 1925 silent film directed by Whitman Bennett, and featuring Jane Novak, James Rennie, and Henry Sands. From a large collection of books we purchased from his library. Kauffman was born and lived in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, although he also maintained homes in Switzerland and Bath, Maine. After graduating from Harvard in 1900, he wrote dozens of stories, mysteries, children's books, and non-fiction titles. He was the editor of the Bangor, Maine *Daily News* from 1941-1947. His novel *The House of Bondage* was widely praised, specifically by Emma Goldman, as the first serious attempt to explore the problem of women and prostitution.
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