The Altar of Freedom de Mary Roberts Rinehart - 1917

Boston & New Yor, 1917. 47,[1]pp. plus advertisements. Cloth backed printed boards. Ink ownership inscription. Very good. Treatise on American patriotism on the brink of World War I.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1917. First Printing. Hardcover. Very good. Small 8vo, cloth backed boards, very good.

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New.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1917. First Printing. Hardcover. Good. 8vo, bound in full red leather gilt, good, rubbing and dryness to joints. With sticker on rear pastedown from Preservation Technologies stating this was deacidified with their patented process. We purchased a large number of similarly bound Rinehart books from a local institution that was deaccessioning duplicates and were told that these were Rinehart family copies, but have no proof of this.

Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917. First edition. Duodecimo (7.25" x 5"), 48 pp. plus 8 unnumbered pp. providing the publisher's catalog of "Books on the Great War." Original printed & decorated blue paper over boards backed in tan cloth, in pictorial dust jacket.
Binding lightly soiled, old price in ink at the ffep, brief offsetting/ toning mostly at endpapers & pastedowns, otherwise very good in worn, torn, chipped, & soiled dust jacket with a substantial loss at the rear panel, fair only.
Known primarily for her mystery fiction, author Rinehart, often called the American Agatha Christie, directs her appeal to the mothers of the United States noting that "Personal service is not rolling bandages for the other woman's son."
This title was published in April, 1917, the same month when the United States reversed its neutrality stance & declared war on the German Empire.

Paperback / softback. New.

Boston: HMCo, 1917. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good. Former owner's gift inscription on front free endpaper. Covers lightly soiled. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1917. First Printing. Hardcover. Very good. Small 8vo, in midnight blue morocco-backed publisher's see-green boards, very good, light wear and soil to covers, sticker from Preservation Technologies on rear pastedown stating that this has gone through their deacification treatment. Purchased in a group of leather-bound Rinehart volumes from a local institution decassioning duplicates; we were told this was from the Rinehart family's own collection but have no proof of that.