Boston Inside Out! Sins of a Great City! A Story of Real Life.
Boston: Shawmut Publishing Company, 1888. Early Edition. 5 X 7 3/8 Inches. 524 + 8 PP "Notices to the Press" section. Item #8762
Original updated 1888 edition with the new introduction in which the author discusses the lawsuits filed against him. Salacious expose of the sins of Boston, in the form of a story, with sections on Sunday Horse Racing; Yankee Courtship; the Theatre, Gambling, Fortune Telling; [the implied] molestation or rape of a Woman in a Dentist's Chair; Dining and Wining on Beacon Hill; Liberalism vs. Catholicism; Happy Home Destroyed; Suicide, etc... Original cloth with gilt decoration and title to cover and spine. Reverend Henry Morgan was the pastor of the First Methodist Church and wages a lifelong war on gambling and his perceived social evils in the city of Boston. Light wear to covers and some foxing to endpapers. A few bumps.
Price: $50.00