Description:
[Chicago: Bow-Knot Publishing Co., ca. 1893-1894]. Wrappers spotted and sunned, with some damp-staining; a lttle chipped at the head and foot of the spine; cheap pulp paper stock toned but supple; in good condition. Original pictorial pink wrappers (7.38 x 5.25 inches), 334 pages. First edition."I was now a veritable madman. A sexual maniac."
Dedicated to a warden at the Joliet prison from one of his former inmates, a sensationalist novel of Chicago that opens with a couple sitting on a bench in Lincoln Park, a tale of seduction, sex and murder--as well as a lengthy prefatory account from Knott detailing his arrest in 1891 and imprisonment in 1892 for sending circulars advertising obscene matter through the mails in promotion of his novel Stolen Sweets.
(His supposedly innocent excuse would have appeared to rest with his professed difficulties of navigating the postal regulations around second-class matter, this dodge likely something of a fig leaf.)
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