Green, J[onathan] H[arring | Condemnation of gambling, card sharking, etc.

Green, J[onathan] H[arrington]

Gambling Unmasked! Or, the Personal Experience of the Reformed Gambler … Designed as a Warning to the Young Men of this Country. New York: Burgess. Stringer & Co.; J. S Redfield, 1844

12mo (149 x 95 mm). 9 wood-engraved plates including frontispiece; occasional spotting. Publisher's pale green wrappers with wood-engraved emblem of a cornucopia filled with playing cards on front wrapper, copper green endpapers, some light rubbing and soiling, upper joint split but intact. Housed in a sturdy card box.

First edition in original wrappers, being "[a] reformed gambler's adventures among brother card sharps, along the Mississippi from Kentucky to Louisiana" (Howes). The final page contains a notice from the Lutheran Observer, praising Green for being "engaged in developing the heartless cruelties of gambling, and the impositions and villanies [sic] practised by the 'sporting gentry' to the pecuniary and moral destruction of thousands of our country." 

REFERENCE:

Howes G365; Jessel 664; Toole Stott 1066