Condition: Acceptable: Signs of wear and use. Edgewear, spine ends and corners show wear. A few spots on boards. No Dust Jacket. light brown cloth covered boards, 400 pages with index. See images for the condition of this book. Scarce early 1928 First edition' "A Star Book" published by Garden City Publishing Co. A chronicle of the early gangs of the Bowery, Five Points, Waterfront, etc. in New York City during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Blurb: The Gangs of New York has long been hand-passed among its cult readership. It is a tour through a now unrecognizable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence cobbled, as Luc Sante 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 that ultimately gave rise to the modern Mafia and its depiction in films like The Godfather.
Series: (The Gangs of New York #1)