Hot Corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated. Including the Story of Little Katy, Madalina, the Rag-Picker's Daughter, Wild Maggie, &c.
New York: De Witt & Davenport, 1854.
Price: $200.00
Hardcover. First collected edition (first serialized in *The New York Tribune*). With original designs, engraved by N. Orr. Small octavo. 408pp. Publisher's brown cloth elaborately stamped in blind and gilt. Later bookseller ticket on the rear pastedown. Binding cocked with some loss at the corners and spine ends, as well as some loss to the cloth, mostly confined to the edges and joints, front pastedown with a 3½" tear, sound and about very good. Fiction about the depredations of the residents of the Five Points.
Item #629028
