ASBURY, Herbert.
Up From Methodism.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930.
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Up From Methodism; Signed by Herbert Asbury
First edition, early printing of this irreverent memoir of Herbert Asbury, the author of Gangs of New York. Octavo, publisher’s original cloth. Boldly signed by Herbert Asbury on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Herbert Asbury was an American journalist and author best remembered for The Gangs of New York (1928), his vivid history of the nineteenth-century Manhattan underworld that later inspired Martin Scorsese’s film. A descendant of Francis Asbury, the pioneering first bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America, he was raised in a strict Methodist household in Farmington, Missouri. Up From Methodism is his frank and often satirical memoir of that upbringing and of his eventual break from the faith of his forebears, a candid account of small-town piety and youthful rebellion that made him a favorite of the freethought movement of the day. Written with the wit and reportorial eye that would define his later chronicles of American vice and disorder, it remains one of the most personal and revealing of his works.
Up From Methodism.
$300.00
In Stock