Item #123392 Metropolitan Life Unveiled; or The Mysteries and Miseries of America's Great Cities, Embracing New York, Washington City, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, and New Orleans. J. W. BUEL.
Metropolitan Life Unveiled; or The Mysteries and Miseries of America's Great Cities, Embracing New York, Washington City, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, and New Orleans
Metropolitan Life Unveiled; or The Mysteries and Miseries of America's Great Cities, Embracing New York, Washington City, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, and New Orleans

Metropolitan Life Unveiled; or The Mysteries and Miseries of America's Great Cities, Embracing New York, Washington City, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, and New Orleans

San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft & Co., 1882. Hardcover edition. HARDCOVER. 606pp. Octavo in brown cloth with gilt titles and decorative stamping in black, all edges speckled red.Color frontispiece, B&W illustrations. Rubbing and wear to extremities; soiling to front endpapers, front hinge cracked (but holding), rear hinge starting, offsetting from frontispiece to first page of Prologue, text unmarked. Very Good. Item #123392

Great cover and frontispiece illustrations incorporating Faustian devils and cavorting demons. An odd compendium of 'scandalous' tidbits and exoticism, well-illustrated.

Price: $185.00

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