A Pickpocket's Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-century New York

Gilfoyle, Timothy J.

ISBN 10: 0393061906 / ISBN 13: 9780393061901

Editore: W. W. Norton & Company Inc., 2006

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W. W. Norton & Company Inc., 2006. Signed, inscribed and dated by Author on Title page; stated First Edition, first printing with full number line; dustjacket ever-so-slightly rubbed/bumped, top edge very lightly bumped, miniscule tear top edge front flap; cover spine ends bumped, front board barely soiled; edges ever-so-slightly sunned/soiled; faint pencil erasures top corner ffep; binding tight; dustjacket, cover, edges and interior intact and very clean, except where noted; a lovely copy. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Codice articolo 602075

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Titolo: A Pickpocket's Tale: The Underworld of ...

Casa editrice: W. W. Norton & Company Inc.

Data di pubblicazione: 2006

Legatura: Hardcover

Condizione: Very Good

Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good

autografato: Signed by Author(s)

Edizione: First Edition.

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A portrait of professional con man and underworld figure George Appo traces his childhood in the notorious Five Points and Chinatown neighborhoods, his incarcerations in such prisons as the Tombs and Sing Sing, and his stint in the Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, where he was reunited with his inmate father.

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Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.460 pages; Meet George Appo, pickpocket, con man, mayor of underworld New York in the late nineteenth century. In Appo's world, child pickpockets swarmed the streets, addicts drifted in opium dens and swindlers worked the lucrative "green-goods" game. The child of Irish and Chinese immigrants, Appo rose as an exemplar of the "good fellow", a criminal who relied on wile, following a code of loyalty in his world of deception. Here is the New York that gave us Edith Wharton, Gangs of New York and the Brooklyn Bridge. Physical description: xvii, 460 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm. Subjects: Pickpockets -- Crime -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography -- History -- Society -- Social conditions -- Culture -- 19th century.