Butte, Montana: Inter Mountain, 1902. First edition. Color pictorial wrappers, portraying a bright-red, horned devil. Cover title: DAMN! The Story of Willie Complain. Chipping to spine and lower corners of wrappers, some glue repairs to front hinge, a very good copy, internally fine. Clearly written in response to the 1902 publication of THE STORY OF MARY MACLANE, which was also published in Butte. The Mary MacLane book, an extraordinary memoir penned by a 19-year old, Canadian-born author, had scandalized many. Her stated desire in the book to "Marry the Devil" surely accounts for the one dep...
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