1869 NEW YORK CITY ANTIQUE BOOK RICH & POOR FIFTH AVE FIVE POINTS SLUMS CRIME For Sale

SUNSHINE AND SHADOW IN NEW YORK. BY MATTHEW HALE SMITH. (BURLEIGH.) HARTFORD: J. B. BURR AND COMPANY, 1869, FIRST EDITION.
MAROON CLOTH, GILT TITLE AND PICTORIAL SPINE, WITH TITLE IN GILT TO FRONT COVER AND TITLE EMBOSSED ON BACK COVER, LARGE, THICK OCTAVO, 8 7/8” x 6”, 718 PAGES, ILLUSTRATED WITH A FRONTISPIECE (CONTRASTING A FIFTH AVENUE MANSION WITH THE SQUALID “OLD BREWERY” THIEVES DEN IN FIVE POINTS) AND 11 OTHER FULL-PAGE PLATES.
BOOK IS IN GOOD TO VERY GOOD, CLEAN AND TIGHT CONDITION, EXCEPT FOR SOME WEAR TO THE CLOTH AT THE TOP AND BOTTOM OF SPINE AND CORNERS, FADING TO GILT ON SPINE AND MODERATE AGE TONING TO PAGES.
IN SUNSHINE AND SHADOW, JOURNALIST AND SOCIAL REFORMER HALE DIVIDES THE CITY INTO TWO DISTINCT WORLDS:
THE SUNSHINE SECTION COVERS THE OPULENT, PROSPEROUS SIDE OF THE CITY. THE HIGH SOCIETY OF FIFTH AVENUE, WALL STREET SPECULATION, SUCCESSFUL MERCHANTS GRAND CHURCHES, CENTRAL PARK AND FAMOUS FIGURES LIKE P.T. BARNUM, JOHN JACOB ASTOR AND HENRY WARD BEECHER.
THE SHADOW SECTION HIGHLIGHTS THE CITY’S GRIM UNDERWORLD - IT’S EXTREME POVERTY, TENEMENTS AND CRIME BREEDING GROUND OF THE NOTORIOUS FIVE POINTS SLUM, AS WELL AS THE REALITY OF PICKPOCKETS, GAMBLING DENS,STREET WALKERS AND DANCE HALLS.
THE FOLLOWING IS A SAMPLE OF CHAPTER HEADS FROM THE TABLE OF CONTENTS:
HIGH LIFE IN NEW YORK, WALL STREET, HARPER BROTHERS, STOCK AND OIL PREACHERS, BLACKMAILING AS AN ART, DETECTIVE FORCE OF NEW YORK, A NIGHT AMONG THE DETECTIVES, THE TOMBS ON SUNDAY MORNING, CORNELIUS VANDERBILT, THE FIVE POINTS, THE BOWERY, SAILORS IN NEW YORK, FULTON STREET PRAYER MEETING, BUSINESS REVERSES IN NEW YORK, CENTRAL PARK, LIFE AMONG THE LOWLY,SOCIAL EVIL IN NEW YORK, PANEL THIEVING, GAMBLING HOUSES OF THE FIRST CLASS, LOW CLASS GAMBLING HOUSES, STREET WALKERS, HARRY HILL’S DANCE HOUSE, THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM - THE JEWS IN NEW YORK, ROMAN CATHOLICS IN NEW YORK, GIFT SWINDLER’S AND LOTTERY ENTERPRISES.