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[TRUMBLE, Alfred]. Crooked Life in New York. New York: Richard K. Fox, (1882). Publisher’s pictorial wrappers printed in two colors. Frontispiece portrait of a member of the “swell mob,” woodcuts. 53, [11] + 16pp. of ads including one for Trumble’s rare treatise, Faro Exposed, and another for Bret Harte’s Heathen Chinee. Foxed and chipped as expected, wraps holding but tender. Folding paper case. SCARCE.
One from a series of salacious exposes written by Trumble and published by Fox, proprietor of the Police Gazette, this work exposes the methods of bank sneaks, pickpockets, shoplifters, and other nefarious inhabitants of the great metropolis.