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Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
ASBURY, HERBERT. The Gangs of New York. Illustrated. 8vo, publisher's 1/4 cloth over pictorial boards, pale stains and faint bleed to covers, top and bottom of boards rubbed with exposure; lacking dust jacket; hinges cracked, dampstain to bottom-edges into blank margins of contents. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928
first edition, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper: "Herbert Asbury / Mount Sinai Hosp. / April 26, 1928." The first signed copy of this title to appear at auction according to ABPC and Rare Book Hub.
