A Moment of Time: Things Seen on the Bread-Line of Belgium

New York: Moffat, Yard, 1915.

Price: $250.00

Hardcover. First edition. Faint dampstain to the last several pages, else very good or better in pictorial cloth, lacking the dustwrapper. The author's own copy, Inscribed by him to his Uncle Samuel Wright, who later bequeathed his library back to Kauffman. From a large collection of books we purchased from his library. A mystery listed in *Hubin*. 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. A scarce title.

Item #55356

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Item #55356 A Moment of Time: Things Seen on the Bread-Line of Belgium. Reginald Wright KAUFFMAN.