He is perhaps best known today for his part in a love quadrangle that rocked the early years of Bryn Mawr College where, known as the "Byron of Bryn Mawr," he was a professor from 1895 to 1898. A bestselling novelist in the early 20th century, Hodder was friends with many influential thinkers of the time, including Leo Stein, Josiah Flynt Willard, and Hutchins Hapgood. Alfred Hodder (1866-1907), American author, attorney, Bryn Mawr College professor, private secretary to Manhattan District Attorney William Travers Jerome, muckraking journalist, and voice of the Progressive movement. Inscribed and signed at half-title in ink “In memory of a campaign for sheer variety against hocus-pocus and sleight of hand - Sincerely - Alfred Hodder”. Black endpapers with no cracking and preserved excellent. Some minor rubbing and shelf wear to edges overall still excellent. Publishers cloth with gilt rules and title to spine. London & New York: Swan Sonnenschein & Co. The Adversaries Of The Sceptic: Or The Specious Present.
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