Shackles of the Free

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1929 (c.1928). First Edition. Hardcover. [bright and clean, very slight deterioration to cloth at base of spine, spine just a teensy bit turned, small piece torn out of edge of last text page (no loss of text), vintage price label (from The White House, San Francisco) on rear pastedown; jacket lightly edgeworn, small chip at top left corner of front panel]. "When a beautiful woman, in the prime of youth, finds herself married to a lifelong invalid and at the same time knows that love has come to her for the first time through another man, what is she to do? What of her vow, 'for better or for worse'?" Apparently the author, who wrote a total of six published novels but about whom I've found virtually no biographical information, was just eighteen when her first novel, "Race," was published, the year before this one. .