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100 1 $aGilfoyle, Timothy J.
245 12 $aA pickpocket's tale :$bthe underworld of nineteenth-century New York /$cTimothy J. Gilfoyle.
260 $aNew York ;$aLondon :$bW. W. Norton,$c2007.
300 $axvii, 460 p. :$bill. ;$c21 cm.
500 $aOriginally published: 2006.
505 0 $aThe trials of Quimbo Appo -- Urchins, Arabs, and gutter-snipes -- A house of refuge at sea -- Appo on: violence -- Factories for turning out criminals -- The "guns" of Gotham -- Drafted -- Opium dens and Bohemia -- The old homestead -- The dives -- Appo on: Jack Collins -- Tombs justice -- Appo on: Good fellows -- Fences -- "That galling yoke of servitude" -- Danny Driscoll and the Whyos -- Eastern State Penitentiary -- Green goods -- Appo on: Jersey City -- Poughkeepsie -- Appo on: Stealing guys -- The Lexow Committee -- In the tenderloin -- A marked man -- Buried alive -- A genuine reformation.
600 10 $aAppo, George,$db. 1856.
650 0 $aPickpockets$zNew York (State)$zNew York$vBiography.
650 0 $aCrime$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aJuvenile delinquents$zNew York (State)$zNew York$vBiography.
651 0 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xSocial conditions$y19th century.
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