The Brownsville Boys.
SULLIVAN, Larry. The Brownsville Boys, The Jewish Gangsters of Murder, Inc. [22] ff. Illustrated with 20 colour etchings by D.R. Wakefield. Folio, 450 x 330 mm, loose in publisher's black chemise in original black cloth covered clamshell box by Claudia Cohen. [Maine]: Two Ponds Press, 2013.
Twenty biographies of notorious Jewish gangsters by crime scholar Larry E. Sullivan of John Jay College in New York. The accompanying etchings are by D.R. Wakefield, a protege of Leonard Baskin, with whom Sullivan first discussed the project in 1993 for Baskin's Gehenna Press. One of 50 copies for sale, signed by the author and artist, from a total edition of 60, designed by W.A. Dwiggins with typography by Russell Maret and presswork by Art Larson at Horton Tank Graphics.
Item nr. 156406
Price:
$4,200.00