New York by Gas-Light with Here and There a Streak of Sunshine.
New York: Dewitt & Davenport, 1850. First edition. Hardcover. G.G. Foster was a journalist for the New York Tribune, who wrote much about New York lowlife. Indeed this is not fiction at all, but a tour of nightlife in New York, with much on prostitution, nude shows, saloons, bowling and billiard saloons (In the company of William T. Porter and Frank Forester), etc.
8vo, 127pp, bound in modern three-quarter morocco and cloth. Scattered foxing. Wright I 979. Very good condition. Item #25947
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