Ante Up: Gambling Memorabilia

[New York City–Crime] Mackeever, Samuel A. (1848–?). Glimpses of Gotham and City Characters. New York: National Police Gazette Office/[Richard K. Fox], [1880]. 8vo. 72pp + 2 full-page illustrated publisher's advs. for “Cheap Books for the Holidays” and “The Champions of the American Prize Ring”. Third edition with “new and spicy illustrations” including 14 full-page woodcut plates, title vignette portrait of author (occasional smudging to margins, small pale dampstain to title). Publisher's pictorial wraps. (few spine panel losses at ends, light chipping to upper cover edges, ink spotting and soiling to covers including pale dampstaining to upper cover). RARE. A rare look into New York City’s early hedonistic night life, particularly its siren women, who are depicted as prostitutes, pickpockets, and otherwise ill-intentioned charmers.