New York: Van Rees Press; Coward-McMann, 1962. First Edition (presumed; no prior editions or printings cited). Octavo in polished red cloth boards; black and red pictorial jacket; black endpages; illustrations; 7 leaves of unnumbered photographs; selective bibliography; 375p Near fine with minor dampstains edges of lightly toned leaves; in near fine jacket with slight foxing andf edgewear, mostly at spine and folds. In archival mylalr. Hardcover.
"This is where it happened: the Tong Wars that ripped through San Francisco's Chinatown -- a lurid, violent chapter in American history [...] the colorful truth -- told and documented in Richard Dillon's brisk, absorbing narrative-- exposes the tragic fate of the Chinese 'average man' trapped between the tongs that terrorize him and a government that couldn't understand him." Author Dillon, a native Californian, headd the Sutro Library in San Francisco and wrote Embarcadero and Shanghaiing.
