THE GANGS OF NEW YORK

Arrow, London, 2002, 1^st pr thus.  ISBN 0-09-943674-4.  Trade soft cover, 366 pages including Slang of the Early Gangsters, Bibliography, and Index.  Very good minus; wraps show some edge and cover wear, small corner creases, sticker ghosts on rear, remainder mark on bottom edge; no reading creases.  Binding tight.  Interior clean and unmarked; black & white illustrations.  ‘… long out of print and a cult classic, is a tour through a now unrecognizable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence.  Herbert Asbury presents the definitive work on this subject, and illumination of the gangs of old New York that ultimately gave rise to the Mafia and its depiction in films like The Godfather.’ (from rear wrap)