THE BARBARY COAST. An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld

Hardback. By the author of 'Gangs of New York'. Chapter headings include ; "The Miners Came in Forty-Nine"; Hounds and Harlots; The Sydney Ducks; The Bella Union; The Chinese and the Hoodlums; The Slaves of Chinatown; "Company, Girls!"; Slummers' Paradise; The End of the Barbary Coast. Illus., Bibliog., Index. 310pp. + 11pp. Index. 8vo. Pictorial eps. Neat name insc. to fep, lightly foxed edges, faint mks to top edge of lower cover. Red cloth/black lettering. Vg.