"Oh, wearisome conditions of humanity! \ Born under one law, to another bound, \ vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity: \ created sick, commanded to be sound. \ What meaneth Nature by these diverse laws-- \ passion and reason, self-division's cause?"
As issued in purple cloth stamped in gold. Purple endpapers.
"Copyright, 1928 by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc."--Title page verso.