Green, J. H. (Jonathan Harrington) | The first account of cheating at poker

Green, J. H. (Jonathan Harrington)

An Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling… Cincinnati: U. P. James, 1843

12mo (180 x 110 mm). Numerous charts and diagrams; dampstained and foxed. Full modern brown calf, retaining original lettering piece spine sunned.

First edition, and the first account of cheating at poker

Green, a reformed gambler, wrote a number of works on cardsharps, counterfeiters, and other western characters as a warning against the paths of evil. The first of these was Gambling Unmasked (see following lots). The present title predates that edition, and is unrecorded in Howes and Sabin. 

REFERENCE:

Toole Stott 1063