1925 · New York
by Miln, Louise Jordan
New York: A. L. Burt, 1925. First Burt edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 311, [1]; fine copy in original orange cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine, and preserving a very good to near fine dust jacket. Miln spent her early career as a traveling actor throughout the Asia Pacific, performing in Australia, China, Korea and Japan. Her theater group was the first to perform a complete play of Shakespeare in Japan. After moving to London, she began focusing on novel writing in earnest, putting out 20 romantic novels between 1917 and 1933, all set in or about Asia, particularly China. Many of her stories involve encounters between the East and the West, including (truncated)