1. By Soochow Waters. New York: Frederick A. Stokes. 1929.
First Edition. Orient novel of a western girl who falls in love with a Chinese gentleman. Starting as a stage actress, Miln sometimes worked forty straight weeks, playing small parts often with Edwin Booth. Making her first trip to China while traveling with her theater company, Miln would later become a student and admirer of Oriental culture. She would as a novelist project her theme of interracial marriage into a number of her novels. Fine bright copy with lower spine end mildly bumped in Very Good-Near Fine dustjacket with some creasing at lower spine end. Item #5151