Consequences [INSCRIBED ~ John Haynes Holmes' copy]

FORD, Julia Ellsworth; HOLMES, John Haynes (introduction by)

Edité par New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1929

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12mo. (19 cm). 1/2 leather, 1/2 textured paper with gilt-stamped spine and five raised bands; top edge gilt; xv, [1], [2], 3-342 pp. INSCRIBED by the author on the dedication page to John Haynes Holmes who provides the introduction. A novel about the "horrors of the opium habit in the Far East, the responsibility for these horrors of western imperialism and the growing enslavement of our own world to a traffic which has long since subdued the world of India and China." The author was a wealthy socialite who mainly wrote children's books. Holmes was the pastor of The Community Church, NYC, a founding member of both the NAACP and ACLU, and a tireless social reformer. Rubbing along the joints; corners worn and rounded; Holmes' bookplate to front pastedown.

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• Titre: Consequences [INSCRIBED ~ John Haynes Holmes' copy]
• Éditeur: New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc
• Date de parution: 1929
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: First edition.
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