Types From City Streets

New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1910. First edition. Octavo. Gray pictorial cloth, stamped in black and silver inks on cover and spine; 379pp. 8 inserted leaves of plates (halftones) by Glenn O. Coleman. Trace of rubbing at spine ends and corners; scattered pencil marginalia, with old erasure to front endpaper; still a tight, square, and attractive copy, Very Good or better.

Hapgood's uncommon chronicle of immigrant and underworld life on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, a sequel of sorts to his classic The Spirit of the Ghetto. Hapgood, a sometime anarchist and full-time free-lover, was in the first wave of Greenwich Village bohemians; his celebratory accounts of Manhattan’s seedier sections have long stood as scarce classics of New York writing. This a really brilliant copy; the book is very rarely seen thus. We have noted binding variants in gray cloth (as here) and green. (Inventory #: 86220)