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Playboy's Illustrated History of Organized Crime

Playboy's Illustrated History of Organized Crime by Richard Hammer. 377 pages, graphically illustrated. Coffee table size.

Playboy's Illustrated History of Organized Crime

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Playboy's Illustrated History of Organized Crime by Richard Hammer. 377 pages, graphically illustrated. Coffee table size.

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Playboy's Illustrated History of Organized Crime by Richard Hammer is a coffee table sized book. It measures 8.5 by 11 inches, by 1.25 inches thick and has 377 pages. It is a hard cover book with a dust jacket and is fully indexed. The title states "illustrated", and boy is it. I didn't count how many photos there are, but possibly a couple hundred, many very graphic. The dust jacket has some scrapes and small tears.

The book is copyrighted 1975 and is now discontinued and no longer available except for the individual listings you'll see online.

The book is a history of organized crime from its chaotic beginnings to its rise to become one of our country's biggest businesses. Just to mention a few of the gangsters profiled are: Al Capone, Arnold Rothstein, Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, and Carlo Gambino, Frank Costello, Albert Anastasia, Vito Genovese, and the list goes on and on. It talks about the Irish, Italian, Jewish, Asian and black gangsters as well.

It covers the subjects that kept organized crime alive from the political corruption, to the business aspect of it such as; liquor, vice, gambling, narcotics, racketeering and murder.

The chapter titles are:
The American Dream
Chicago and the prohibition years
Slicing up the Big Apple
War in the underworld
Happy days and hard times
The heat's on
Murder, Incorporated
V for Victory, Vice, and Vegas
A little light on the syndicate
Perils of power
Attack on a hoodlum empire
The American nightmare
Index

Buyer to pay USPS Media Mail delivery charges of $7.99. Shipping is from Nevada. Depending on your location, Media Mail can take 4 to 10 days for delivery. If you would prefer Priority Mail for quicker delivery just let me know and I can give you a quote on that service. Delivery to Alaska, Hawaii, or American territories will have to be via Priority Mail as the postal service will not quote a delivery time for Media Mail to those locations.

SPECIAL NOTE about SHIPPING CHARGES: Twice yearly and again in November for the holiday season (so 3 times each year) the postal service increases shipping charges. This is what they call their “Delivering for America” plan in which they hope to become profitable. It’s a 10 year plan that started in 2021, so we’ve got years to go with multiple price increases each year. I try to absorb some of the new charges and haven't increased my shipping charges in three years. This year, unfortunately, I have to increase the shipping. I'll try to keep it reasonable and even absorb some of the changes when possible.

I do combine shipping on multiple items purchased as long as all items can fit safely into a single box or envelope. However, my web host is not set up to calculate multiple item shipping costs. At checkout, you will be charged full shipping price on each item purchased and I will refund the appropriate amount of overpayment. If you are uncomfortable with that, you can send me an email with your zip code and stating which items you'll be purchasing and I'll calculate the correct combined shipping charges and send you a custom invoice.

INTERNATIONAL PURCHASES: Sorry, I do not ship to locations outside of the United States.

All items in my listings come from either estate or garage sales. I do not know if they came from homes where smoking or pets were present. All items are sold in the same condition as when I received them.

Playboy's Illustrated History of Organized Crime by Richard Hammer. 377 pages, graphically illustrated. Coffee table size.
Playboy's History of Crime
Playboy's Illustrated History of Organized Crime by Richard Hammer. 377 pages, graphically illustrated. Coffee table size.