Luda the Occult Girl: a romance by Mays, Julia Webb, illustrated by Carolyn Smith - 1912

New York: Broadway Pub, 1912. Hardcover. 280p., illustrated with plates from drawings, good first edition in original wine cloth and gilt with color portrait plate affixed front cover, mild shelfwear and toning. Civil War tale of a rebellious young woman, her suitors on both sides of the Mason/Dixon line. Set in Ohio. Luda at several points becomes incorporeal, drifting from her body. Mays was a Suffragette.