PALACES OF SIN OR THE DEVIL IN SOCIETY
Book Details + Condition: National Book Concern (St. Louis, MO). First Edition, 1902. 333 pages, with illustrations. PALACES OF SIN was "written by a man who spent his fortune with lavish hand, but awoke from his hypnotic debauch of Society’s shame, to wave the red flag of warning to his fellow man," that writer being "Colonel Dick Maple," the pseudonym of Robert Seth McCallen, founder of The National Rip-Saw, a leading American Socialist tabloid paper in the early 20th century. Contents include: My First Sight of Washington Society; Story of a Once Happy Wife, who was Ruined by Society's Contaminating Breath; Woman - The Noblest Work of God; The Morals of the Wealthy Compared to the Morals of what the Rich Delight in Calling The Common People; Woman's Dress as Indicator of Her Character; Gambling Among the Fashionable Society; The Awful Spectacle of American Girls Prostituting Themselves for Title and Wealth; and much more. An overall firm and clean copy, with tight binding (despite cracked inside spine); darkening and chipping to front endpapers (due to quality of paper); light wear to decorated boards, with some darkening; interior is clean and free of markings save normal age-toning to pages.
