Garden City: Doubleday & Company Inc.; Country Life Press, 1950. Octavo (20 x 15 cm.), 344 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. The final work from the historian, journalist, editor, and the author of classic studies of American mores including Gangs of New York, The French Quarter, and Barbary Coast. Asbury's first published work, the story of a small town prostitute, was also partially responsible for the rise of H.L. Mencken's American.....