The Gangs of New York by Herbert Asbury first edition thus and colour campaign maps

and colour campaign maps

blue-eyed Scotsman James MacDonald

Andrew Roberts

Baruch Spinoza

7cm in width

The Gangs of New York by Herbert Asbury first edition thus and colour campaign mapsAn 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