A DARK LANTERN: a story with a prologue
Edition: First US printing
New York: Macmillan, 1906. Green cloth spine gilt lettered and decorated in blind, in beige boards decorated in green and lettered in black, the boards impressed to look like wood. pp (6), 400, (4, ads), [6]. Page edges yellowed; bit of wear to outer corners of boards; sparse minor soling in text; soft bump to lower inner corners thoughout; else a VG clean, tight and unworn copy, no owner names, in an interesting trade binding. Invoives "a heroine who declines a morganatic marriager to a German prince, only to take a rest cure and marry her tyrannical doctor, with whom she finally achieve a successful marriage. The analysis of the power relations in the doctor-patient relationship is of special interest" - Kemp et al, Edwardian Fiction. Noted feminist author and actress, born in Kentucky before emigrating to England. UK edition was in 1905.; Octavo
Condition: Very Good