Search Results: gem of the prairie an informal by asbury herbert

DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 1986. Softcover. Good+/No Jacket. Used Book: Trade Paperback Standard used condition. Reading copy or better.

Northern Illinois University Press, 1986-06. Paperback. Good.

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1940. First Edition. Original Cloth-backed Boards. Very Good/No Jacket.

Northern Illinois Univ Pr, 1986. Soft cover. New/As New. STORED NEW PRISTINE CONDITION SANITIZED THEN WRAPPED

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. 8vo. [10], 377, [1], xix, [1] pp. Frontispiece, illustrations (many full page). Quarter-purple cloth over illustrated boards (minor shelfwear, some offsetting from binding glue on endpapers), w/ d.j. (very minor chipping head & foot of spine, edgewear, minor dustsoiling), still VG/VG copy. First edition, stated, of this fascinating history of the Chicago Fire, prostitution, gambling, bootlegging, racketeering, and more.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 377p +19p index, octavo, illustrated. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket spine darkened.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1940. Hardcover. Wear with chipping and open tears to DJ. ; Notation to front flap of a reduced price edition, possibly from a couple of years later than the first edition despite the fact that the copyright page still says 'First Edition.' Story of the sordid world of the Chicago crime scene ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 377,xix pages .

Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Co, 1942. Hardcover, [octavo], maroon cloth boards, black spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 377 pp., xix. Very good book; very good dust jacket, wraps worn and soiled.

Northern Illinois University Press, 1986-06-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

1940. ASBURY, Herbert. Gem of the Prairie: An Informal History of the Chicago Underworld. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. 1st ed. 8vo. [14], 377, [1], xix (index), [1] pp., frontis., illus. In orig. cloth-back pictorial boards with d/j. Near fine in non-price clipped d/j.

Garden City Publishing, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: Octavo (standard book size). light fraying and bumps to corners, light shelf wear. Category: True Crime; .

New York: Alfred A. Knoff. DJ in archival cover spine sunned chips rubbed tape repair. Stated first edition. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1940.

New York: Alfred A. Knoff. DJ in archival cover light ware. Stated first edition. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1940.