The Gangs of New York by Herbert Asbury first edition thus Eight chapters containing 38 lessons

Eight chapters containing 38 lessons

This copy bears an interesting provenance

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The Gangs of New York by Herbert Asbury first edition thus Eight chapters containing 38 lessonsAn Informal History of the Underworld. Long hand passed among a cult readership, 'The Gangs of New York' is a tour through a now unrecognizable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence cobbled, as Luc Santa has written, "from legend, memory, police records, the self aggrandizements of aging crooks, popular journalism, and solid historical research." Asbury presents the definitive work on this subject, an illumination of the gangs of old New York