No Man's Land: A Romance

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1910. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Fogarty, Thomas. Reissue. U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing's copy, with his ink stamp on front endpaper (these were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near his birthplace in Watertown, which included many other works owned by him). No jacket. Spine faded, page ridges lightly foxed. 1910 Hard Cover. 356 pp. 16 pages of publisher ads follow text. illustrated by Thomas Fogarty. Louis Joseph Vance possesses the happy gift denied to most of us, of finding the picturesque, the adventurous and the romantic among everyday scenes and everyday people. A gentleman gets off of a New York subway train at the wrong station. Not in itself an unusual thing to do; but from that simple act Mr. Vance shows how an unprincipled scoundrel is able to saddle the accusation of murder upon an innocent man; and how a devoted lover loses for years every trace of the woman whom he worships. In the rapid narrative of a double crime, and the unexpected dangers which beset the hero in his long search for the woman whom he finally marries, the author has equaled his best work.