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New York/Cleveland: Otis Publishing Corporation. Very Good+ in Good dj. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. [solid clean copy, mild wear at lower extremities; jacket heavily edgeworn, some paper loss at most corners and spine ends]. "A story of the new idea of marriage," per the jacket tagline, and guess what? -- he's against it! (Not marriage, just the new idea.) "An intense and vivid love story of deep social import," it's also described as "the first novel from the pen of [the author] in three years." All of which sounds fine and up to date -- especially the part of the jacket blurb that rants about the twin evils of "Radical Socialism and Prohibition" -- but unfortunately omits the rather pertinent fact that this "new" novel is basically just a re-working of the good reverend's earlier tome "The One Woman," originally published way back in 1903 (at which time it was called "a story of Modern Utopia"). And by a strange coincidence, "The One Woman" is conveniently omitted from the long list of the author's previous books in the front of this volume. Tsk tsk. .