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Sins of America as "exposed" by the Police gazette / by Edward Van Every ... with an introduction by Thomas Beer. With 206 reproductions of the original woodcut illustrations.

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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio AC85 C5915 931s
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Van Every, Edward.
Contributor:
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
The National police gazette.
Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Criminals--United States.
Criminals.
Crime--United States.
Crime.
United States.
Penn Provenance:
Birdwhistell, Robert Nevins, family of (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)
Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
Physical Description:
xx pages, 1 leaf, 297 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm
Place of Publication:
New York : Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1931.
Notes:
Title vignette.
" ... this volume permits reproduction of the old 'Police Gazette' woodcuts and generous excerpts lifted from its forgotten pages to tell the story in the way that made the 'Police Gazette' for some years the most widely circulated of weekly journals."--P. xx.
"Horace Greeley's private habits", by Mark Twain, p. 69-74.
OCLC:
456949

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