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[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 advts. 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). Pictorial wraps, chipped and soiled, but binding tight. Folding paper case. 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.