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Green, Jonathan H[Arrington] | Exposé on the many ills of gambling

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October 28, 08:54 PM GMT

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700 - 1,000 USD

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Green, Jonathan H[Arrington]

Gambling Exposed: A Full Exposition of All the Various Arts, Mysteries and Miseries of Gambling. Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, 1857


8vo (184 x 127 mm). Engraved frontispiece and 6 engraved plates, one full-page text illustration of card manufactories, 10-page publisher's advertisements at the end (under T.B. Peterson's name only); scattered foxing and staining throughout, edges browned, remnants of a paper insert adhering to p. 51 slightly obscuring a few words. Publisher's red cloth blocked in blind, spine with gilt lettering and vignette, publisher's yellow advertisements used as endpapers (under "T.B. Peterson & Brothers"); some soiling and rubbing to covers, gilt on spine and joints slightly rubbed, minor wear to spine ends.


Assumed first edition. Another condemnation of gambling from the zealous "Reformed Gambler"himself. Green's works are among the most important devoted to early American gambling.


REFERENCE:

Howes G365; Jessel 662; not in Toole Stott

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