Altars to Mammon. Illustrations by F. Dana Marsh

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1908. First Edition. Octavo. Original pictorial cloth boards; 334pp. Upper edge dusted; pencil ownership signature; still a tight, Near Fine copy with inked titles and decorations bright and unrubbed. A young Methodist clergyman in an Ohio mining town wages a successful campaign against the bigotry and corruption of his congregation. The novel received high praise in the Yale Literary Magazine, which called it "living proof that practical service is of more use than loud profession," and a "striking argument against that doctrinal conservatism that spells only moss-backed bigotry" (Vol. LXXIII p.335). HANNA 2615. (Inventory (truncated) #: 8513)