New York: Confidential! [The lowdown on the Big Town].
de LAIT, Jack & MORTIMER, Lee
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Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing, [1948]. 8vo. 316 pp. Blue cloth, gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. great cover art of New York skyline night scene (mnr clsd tear hd of spine, slght creasng), NF/VG copy. First edition, 3rd printing, of this travel guide which begins where the Baedeker leaves off, exposing and exploring the denizens and operations of the raffish demi-world of crime, politics, intrigue, and passion which flows like a great subterranean current through Manhattan.
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- New York: Confidential! [The lowdown on the Big Town].
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- LAIT, Jack & MORTIMER, Lee
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- Ziff-Davis Publishing,
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- Chicago:
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- [1948].
- Palabras clave
- Corruption, Travel, City Guides, New York, Mafia, Criminology, Manhattan, Cover Art, Crime, Politics, Social History, Guide
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