The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the an Francisco Underworld by Asbury, John - 1933

Garden City: Garden City, 1933. (USA) Copyright 1933 by Alfred A. Knopf, this is a reprint edition. No markings, faint discolorations to red cloth covers, a couple of spots to pages, Good(-) only used copy; laacking the dust jacket. Red cloth illus. end papers, 319pp, then xi index, then [3]pp publisher's ads. B&W frontis of a Madame and some of her girls, Gay dogs of the Barbary Coast; The Palace hotel; El Dorado in 1830; An attack by the Hounds; The Hanging of English Jim; Conveying Casey through the Streets; Typical Hoodlums of the 1880s; An atritocrat Opium den; A Parlor House; Pacific Street, heart of the Barbary Coast; Pacific Street in 1913; The Old Hippodrome; Hatchetmen arrested after the murder of Little Pete; Cowboy Maggie; Out of the Ashes. Chapters include The Miners; Hound and Harlots; The Sydney Ducks; The Bella Union; The Chinese and the Hoodlums; The Slaves of Chinatown; Help the Poor Sailor; Company, Girl!; Slummers' Paradise. (1.7 JM FO 6/4. Hardcover. Good (-)/Lacking the Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".