[CRIME & UNDERWORLD] [NEW YORK] HAPGOOD, Hutchins

Types From City Streets

New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1910. First edition. Octavo. Blue-green pictorial cloth, stamped in black and silver on cover and spine; 379pp. 8 inserted leaves of plates (halftones) by Glenn O. Coleman. A bright, Near Fine copy, with just a trace of rubbing to spine ends board edges; virtually free of soiling, with the pictorial design on front cover still bright and unfaded.

Hapgood's uncommon chronicle of immigrant and underworld life on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, presented as a series of fictionalized vignettes, and a sequel of sorts to his classic The Spirit of the Ghetto. Hapgood, a sometime anarchist and full-time free-lover, was in the first wave of Greenwich Village bohemians; his celebratory accounts of Manhattan’s seedier sections have long stood as scarce classics of New York writing. An uncommonly nice copy of a quite uncommon book.

Price: $500.00

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