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New York: A.L. Burt Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1918). PhotoPlay Edition. Hardcover. [modest shelfwear book, vintage bookseller's label (The White House, San Francisco) on rear pastedown; the jacket is moderately worn and lightly soiled, with a few tiny edge-nicks, some minimal paper loss at a few corners, some fading to the spine, and a 2.5-inch split at the bottom rear hinge]. (8 B&W film stills; see Notes) Hughes's novel of "an American girl's heroism for the sake of those she loved," set against the backdrop of the early days of the First World War as experienced in Belgium, where the German Army (the "Huns") purportedly commited all sort of atrocities, particularly against women. (The heroine's heroics were to save her mother and sister, who had traveled there in order for the young girl to be placed in a convent.) First serialized in The Red Book Magazine, the book appeared in hardcover (from Harper & Brothers) in June 1918.… Read More