(Worcester, Mass.): Privately Printed (The Commonwealth Press), 1911.
Price: $85.00
Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 396pp. Dampstain on top edge of last forty pages, boards bumped, cloth faded and soiled with pink stain on rear bottom edge of rear board, a good or better copy. Tipped to the front pastedown is an Autograph Letter Signed by Chamberlain to author Reginald Wright Kauffman presenting the book. 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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