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1	French Quarter: An Informal History of the New Orleans Underworld more books like this by Herbert Asbury add to wishlist Home to the notorious "Blue Book," which listed the names and addresses of every prostitute living in the city, New Orleans's infamous red-light district gained a reputation as one of the most raucous in the world. But the New Orleans underworld consisted of much more than the local bordellos. It was also well known as the early gambling capital ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.34! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld more books like this by Herbert Asbury add to wishlist The history of the Barbary Coast properly begins with the gold rush to California in 1849. If the precious yellow metal hadn't been discovered ...the development of San Francisco's underworld in all likelihood would have been indistinguishable from that of any other large American city. Instead, owing almost entirely to the influx of gold ... see all copies from $2.46! new only from $9.07! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld more books like this by Herbert Asbury add to wishlist First published in 1927, this classic has long had a cult following because of its keenly observed and gritty rendering of old New York, and of the habitues of neighborhoods such as the Five Points, the Lower East Side, and the waterfront. Asbury writes of gangs which predated the rise of the mafia--gangs with colorful names such as the Bowery ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.91! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Sucker's Progress: An Informal History of Gambling in America more books like this by Herbert Asbury add to wishlist Originally published in 1938, Sucker's Progress is a complete look at old-time gamesmanship in America. From Midwestern riverboats to East Coast racetracks, Asbury explores the legal, and illegal, history of gambling in preWorld War I America. With a keen eye and acerbic voice, Asbury defines the world of gambling as one of "sharpers" and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	All Around the Town: Murder, Scandal, Riot and Mayhem in Old New York more books like this by Herbert Asbury add to wishlist The author of the New York Times best-seller The Gangs of New York returns with a second volume of tales from Gotham's underworld. In this wonderfully colorful and surprising history, Herbert Asbury expands his purview beyond the Five Corners to the entire city of New York. From Lord Cornbury, a loonily corrupt, cross-dressing British governor ... see all copies from $2.78! new only from $2.78! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Gem of the prairie, an informal history of the Chicago underworld more books like this by Herbert Asbury add to wishlist This classic history of crime tells how Chicago's underworld earned and kept its reputation. see all copies from $3.45! first editions \| SVS
7	Up from Methodism: A Memoir of a Man Gone to the Devil more books like this by Herbert Asbury, Foreword by Roy Blount Jr, Roy Blount, Jr. (Foreword by) add to wishlist In 1926, while a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, Herbert Asbury, great-great-nephew of Francis Asbury, the first American Bishop of the Methodist Church, submitted a chapter of his profane work-in-progress, an almost spiteful memoir of his boyhood in the Ozark town of Farmington, Missouri, to H. L Mencken's American Mercury magazine. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Gangs of Chicago, the by Herbert Asbury add to wishlist This classic history of crime tells how the Chicago underworld earned - and kept - its notorious reputation, from the time it was settled to the Prohibition days of the 1920s. Recounting the lives of such infamous early inhabitants as the original Mickey Finn and the mass murderer H. H. Holmes, it climaxes with the city's golden age of crime and a ... see all copies from $2.22! new only from $11.75! \| first editions
9	The Barbary Coast by Herbert Asbury add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
10	The Gangs of San Francisco by Herbert Asbury add to wishlist Herbert Asbury, author of The Gangs of New York and The Gangs of Chicago, turns his attention to chronicle the seedy underworld of San Francisco, from its gold-rush glories to its subterranean opium dens. Houses of ill-repute play host to shanghaied sailors, and the Chinese tong wars rage around the city. San Francisco's historic past is here ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $19.93!
11	Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the New York Underworld more books like this by Herbert Asbury add to wishlist see all copies from $7.00! new only from $58.95!
12	The Great Illusion: An Informal History of Prohibition more books like this by Herbert Asbury add to wishlist see all copies from $16.50! first editions
13	The gangs of New York more books like this by Herbert Asbury add to wishlist Life in mid-19 century New York was tough, and violence and corruption were rife. Nowhere was tougher or more violent than the Bowery and the Five Points area. Two gangs, the Dead Rabbits and the Native Americans, were locked in a seemingly endless battle for supremacy. Amsterdam Vallon, son of the Rabbits' murdered leader, is seeking vengeance ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.59! \| first editions
14	A Methodist Saint: The Life of Bishop Asbury more books like this by Herbert Asbury add to wishlist 1927. In writing the life of Francis Asbury it is necessary to write also, to a very great extent, the history of early American Methodism, for he was virtually its sole proprietor for nearly half a century. He is chiefly responsible for whatever the Methodist church is today in the United States; without his genius for organization and ... see all copies from $12.00! first editions
15 view cover	The Gangs of New Orleans: an Informal History of the French Quarter Underworld by Herbert Asbury add to wishlist Home to the notorious "Blue Book", which listed the names and addresses of every prostitute living in the city, New Orleans' infamous red-light district gained a reputation as one of the most raucous in the world. But the New Orleans underworld consisted of much more than the local bordellos. It was also well known as the early gambling capital of ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $76.99!
16	Sensory Neuropathies more books like this by Arthur K Asbury (Editor), Herbert Budka (Editor), Elfriede Sluga (Editor) add to wishlist While motor neuropathies and neuronopathies and mixed sensory-motor neuropathies have been met with adequate interest by clinical and basic researchers and physicians, pure sensory neuropathies and neuronopathies have received comparably less attention, despite of the considerable morbidity they may cause in the individual patient. In this volume, ... see all copies from $73.00! new only from $73.00! \| SVS
17 view cover	Gangs de Nueva York: Bandas y Bandidos de la Gran Manzana (1800-1925) more books like this by Herbert Asbury add to wishlist "Gangs de Nueva York" es una obra original y muy peculiar en su enfoque: una historia de los origenes y los primeros anos del crimen organizado en una ciudad como Nueva York, y eso lo convirtio muy pronto en un libro de culto, de gran utilidad para conocer aspectos poco divulgados de la hisotria de la ciudad y repleto de datos curiosos. Esta obra ... see all copies from $17.93! new only from $17.94!
18	The French Quarter by Herbert Asbury add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
19 view cover	Not at Night! by Herbert Asbury (Editor) add to wishlist This volume collects 24 creep tales from the early days of Weird Tales. Included are contributions by H.P. Lovecraft, Seabury Quinn, Frank Belknap Long, and many others. Classic chills! see all copies from $17.60! new only from $17.60! \| first editions \| SVS
20	Carry Nation more books like this by Herbert Asbury add to wishlist see all copies from $12.00! signed copies \| first editions
21	All around the town. more books like this by Herbert Asbury add to wishlist see all copies from $9.00! first editions
22	The golden flood, an informal history of America's first oil field more books like this by Herbert Asbury add to wishlist see all copies from $30.00! first editions
23	Die Gangs Von New York by Herbert Asbury add to wishlist see all copies from $11.81!
24 view cover	Gangs De Nueva York/ Gangs of New York: Banda Y Bandidos En La Gran Manzana 1800-1925 by Herbert Asbury add to wishlist see all copies from $5.65!

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