Thomas Street Horror Tapa dura - 1982

The Viking Press, 1982-03-02. Hardcover. Good. 0.9055 10.9055 1.7717. Dust jacket and edges shows shelf wear. Pages are clean and intact.

The Viking Press, March 1982. Hardcover. Acceptable.

Viking Books, 1982. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Penguin Publishing Group, 1982. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Penguin Publishing Group. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

The Viking Press, March 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. USED Very Good/Good Jacket. Pages clean and binding tight. Jacket has an almost-one-inch tear at the bottom of the front panel, with some extremely minor chipping. Not clipped. Brodarted.

N.Y.: Viking Press, 1982. The Thomas Street Horror is a fictionalized account of the murder of Helen Jewett, a young popular prostitute working in New York City. [ if interested in the real case, read "The Murder of Helen Jewett " by Patricia Cohen. ] The Thomas Street Horror is a much livelier, if fictionalized, account of the murder. The veiwpoint character is a young reporter who has just arrived in New York City in November 1835 with a letter of introduction to the proprieter of the journal, the Sun, Benjamin Day. New York journalism at the time was not concerned as much with reporting the news as garnering readers by any method available including elaborate hoaxes and pandering to mob mentality. And the competition between the papers becomes red hot, as they choose up sides as to whether or not Helen Jewett was a wronged woman driven into her way of life or a degraded harpy who preyed on her young clients and was the young clerk accused of her murder guilty or not? The fictional… Leer más

The Viking Press, 1982. Hardcover. New/As New.

New York: The Viking Press. 1982. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0670703710 . Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Foxing on top edge of text block. ; 10.9 X 1.8 X 0.9 inches; 322 pages .

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.