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Comprising: 1) `Sins of New York` by Edward Ban Every. Frederick A, Stokes & Co., New York, 1930. Illustrated, No dust jacket. An overview of crime and debauchery in the Big Apple in the 1800s. 2) `The National Police Gazette`, Edited by Gene Smith and Jayne Barry Smith. 2nd Edition. Published by Simon & Schuster, 1972. Covers the last 20 years of the 19th-century history of this early crime magazine of New York City, 3) `Gem of the Prairie: An Informal History of the History of the Chicago Underworld` by Herbert Asbury. Soft cover. North Illinois University Press, 1986. 4) `The Barbary Coast` by Herbert Asbury. First Edition, 1933. Original obituary of Asbury tipped in. 5) `Hand`s Up!: In the World of Crime` by C.R. Woolredge. Published by Thompson & Thomas, 1901. A scarce volume by one of America`s most renowned detectives of the era. Recounts many of his more famous cases. Cloth wraps. 6) `The American Burlesque Show` by Irving Zeidman. First Edition, Published by Hawthorn Books, Inc., New York, 1967. A history of burlesque from Vaudeville to the 1950s. With dust jacket. 7) `Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture` by Robert C. Allen. The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill & London, 1991. A comprehensive history of burlesque in American culture. 8) `The Gentleman`s Club` by H.Gordon Frost. 9) `Hell`s Belles` by Clark Secrest [soft cover]. 400 - 600

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