first edition Hardcover
1919 · (No place - NY)
by (KAUFFMAN, Reginald Wright, contributor)
(No place - NY): Pleiades Club, 1919. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Light edgewear, a very good plus copy. One of 600 copies. Although not signed, contributor Kauffman's copy with his pencil note of his contribution. Other contributors include Ellis Parker Butler, Dorothy Dix, Al Frueh, Robert Henri, Joseph Hergesheimer, Fanny Hurst, Harry Kemp, Channing Pollock, Margaret Sangster, and many others. From a large collection of books we recently 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. (Inventory #: 55370)