The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld
Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. 2nd Printing. HARDCOVER. Octavo hardcover; 382 pp.; brown cloth spine and tan pictorial boards showing 19th-century street scene. Clean throughout; b/w frontispiece; historical sketches, woodcuts, and photographs. Ex-library with stamp to FFEP and pocket to rear pastedown. Cover wear; 2 inch soiling mark to front board; shaken with exposure to front gutter; page 262 loose. Fair. Fair. Item #165752
An informal history of the New York underworld covering nearly a century of vice, poverty, and political corruption. Author provides a detailed chronicle of spectacular exploits by refractory citizens and notorious criminal organizations, including the Bowery Boys, Dead Rabbits, and the Five Points gang. Examines the social and economic conditions that fostered the growth of the gangster from the Civil War era through the early 20th century.
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