"The Dwelling-Place of Light" by Winston Churchill, published by The Macmillan Company, New York, 1917. First Edition, First Printing with "1917" on the title page, and "Published in October 1917" without any other printings on the copyright page.

Hard boards, burgundy cloth, gold lettering on front board and spine, 5.1/4" x 7.3/4"; "Mama from Little Billy" ink written on the front endpaper, frontispiece, 462 pages + ads by the publisher, very good condition.

The main plot thread is concerned with Janet Bumpus, who takes a job as secretary to Claude Ditmar, an agent for the Chippering Mills. Ditmar falls in love with her and seduces her at a hotel in Boston. Right afterward it's as if she sees him for what he is for the first time, and disagrees with his business practices, siding with the downtrodden workers when they go on strike. Dumping Ditmar, Janet next becomes interested in a radical intellectual, Leonard Rolfe. But when she learns that free love is part of his radical beliefs, she quickly takes her leave of him. She then meets Brooks Insall, an idealistic writer who sympathizes with the proletarian cause but sees himself as too far above it to get involved personally, except through his writings done in his safe ivory tower....

The novel was adapted into a silent film in 1920, directed by Jack Conway and starring Claire Adams, Nigel De Brulier, and King Baggot.

Winston Churchill (1871-1947) was an American best-selling novelist of the early 20th century. He is nowadays overshadowed by the more famous British statesman of the same name, to whom he was not related.

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