Description

Hardcover. black boards lettered in silver on spine, in publisher’s non price-clipped dust-jacket. 350 pages. Several appendices, Bibliographic References, Index. Illustrated with twelve pages of black and white photographs. First edition, first printing with full number line. The author traces the lives of both famous gangsters and lesser known gonuvim [the Yiddish word for thieves] who were among the thousands of Jewish inmates who served time “up the river” in Sing Sing from 1880 to 1950. No previous ownership marks. A clean, sound, tight and unmarked copy in like dust-jacket, appears like new. Fine in a fine dust-jacket.