Description

Hardcover, red cloth lettered in black, in publisher’s dust-jacket. 231 pages. Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with 5 pages of photographs. First edition [with same date on title and copyright page and no additional printings listed]. A history of the attitudes and behavior of American criminal elements and their relation to the jazz world from 1880 until just before America’s entry into the Second World War. No previous ownership marks. No remainder marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy in a lightly shelf-worn dust-jacket. Dust-jacket shows no tears or chips. Fine in a near very good, very scarce dust-jacket.