New York: Confidential! The Lowdown on Its Bright Life by Lait

NY: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1951. Later printing of earlier 1950 edition. Reading creases, spine edge rubbed else near fine, tight copy. Vintage Paperback. Dell Mapback #1534. A 1950 guide to New York City by Daily Mirror newsmen Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer. They take you behind the scenes to explore and expose the denizens and the operations of the raffish half-world of Crime, politics, intrigue and passion. They lead you into swank night clubs and into squalid nests of vice and perversion. They take the lid off Broadway and Swing Lane. They tell the truth about glamour girls, show girls, party girls, models, and the White Way wolves. They sketch many after-dark characters who have made the city famous, or infamous. All Vintage Paperbacks come sealed in 2.5 mil plastic bag and taped closed with removable tape which will not tear the covers if it sticks to them when the book is removed.. 1st Prtg. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Vintage Paperback.

New York: Dell, 1950. Paperback. 240p., mapback paperback reprint of the 1948 original, very worn pictorial wraps. Dell Book 400. Several sections on gay and lesbian interest.

Book. Hardcover. 1951 HARDCOVER AND JACKET IN VERY GOOD 316 PAGES THAT SURE BEATS A PAPERBACK.

New York: Dell, 1951. Softcover. Very Good. Color illustrated softcovers with map of Midtown Manhattan on the rear cover. 240 pp. The 1951 Edition so stated on the title page. Dell No. 1534. Very good. Facts and anecdotes of the "Big City After Dark". Of particular interest are the several appendix sections at the rear; they include a list of backstage phone numbers of major theaters and cabarets; names of the headwaiters at top hotels and clubs; movie company talent scouts; a "Glossary Of Harlemisms"; addresses of restaurants.

Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing, [1948]. 8vo. 316 pp. Blue cloth, gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. great cover art of New York skyline night scene (mnr clsd tear hd of spine, slght creasng), NF/VG copy. First edition, 3rd printing, of this travel guide which begins where the Baedeker leaves off, exposing and exploring the denizens and operations of the raffish demi-world of crime, politics, intrigue, and passion which flows like a great subterranean current through Manhattan.