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Green, J[onathan] H[arrington] | Cardsharping and tricks

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October 28, 08:54 PM GMT

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700 - 1,000 USD

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Green, J[onathan] H[arrington]

Gamblers' Tricks with Cards, Exposed and Explained By … The Reformed Gambler. New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, [?1860 or later]


12mo (178 x 108 mm). Copyright on title-page verso dated 1859, 7 wood-engraved text illustrations, heading above title reads "One Hundred Tricks with Cards," publisher's copious 46-page catalogue at end; title-page toned, extended and remargined, scattered foxing to contents leaf otherwise a very clean copy, fore-edge of terminal leaf of catalogue repaired. Rebound in marbled boards, black cloth spine and black endpapers.


Another copy.


REFERENCE:

Toole Stott 324 (dated 1850)