The Ricky Jay Collection

The Ricky Jay Collection

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 281. Green, Jonathan Harrington | Exposé on the evils of gambling and methods of cheating at cards.

Green, Jonathan Harrington | Exposé on the evils of gambling and methods of cheating at cards

Auction Closed

October 28, 08:54 PM GMT

Estimate

1,200 - 2,500 USD

Lot Details

Description

Green, Jonathan Harrington

A group of 3 works by the "Reformed Gambler"


Comprising 2 copies similarly bound in wrappers but with variant titles and pagination, 12mo (178 x 114 mm to 203 x 121 mm).


One Hundred Tricks with Cards/Gamblers' Tricks with Cards, Exposed and Explained. New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, [?1859]. Illustrated, total of 114 pp. Pale green pictorial wrappers, priced 30 cents. — An Exposition of Games and Tricks with Cards. New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, [1859]. Illustrated, total of 96 pp. Green pictorial wrappers titled "One Hundred Tricks with Cards/Gamblers' Tricks with Cards, Exposed and Explained" (priced 25 cents with advertisement " Just Published" [for W.H Cremer's] "The Secret Out"); wrappers slightly soiled. — An Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling. Boston: Redding & Co., 1845. Pictorial and letterpress titles, 6 plates and 3 text illustrations; scattered foxing, plates browned. Publisher's brown embossed cloth, gilt emblem of cornucopia on front cover, gilt spine.

You May Also Like

Smith, John | The General History of Virginia... 1624
Smith, John | The General History of Virginia... 1624

Estimate: 150,000 - 200,000 USD

(Hamilton, Alexander, James Madison, and John Jay) | Bushrod Washington's Federalist, praised by George Washington as a "work [that] will merit the notice of Posterity"
(Hamilton, Alexander, James Madison, and John Jay) | Bushrod Washington's Federalist, praised by George Washington as a "work [that] will merit the notice of Posterity"

Estimate: 120,000 - 150,000 USD

McKenney, Thomas L., and James Hall | History of the Indian Tribes of North America, a royal subscriber's copy
McKenney, Thomas L., and James Hall | History of the Indian Tribes of North America, a royal subscriber's copy

Estimate: 70,000 - 100,000 USD

Virginia House of Delegates | The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights
Virginia House of Delegates | The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights

Estimate: 350,000 - 500,000 USD

Washington, George | An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of three of the most consequential military figures of eighteenth-century America: Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox
Washington, George | An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of three of the most consequential military figures of eighteenth-century America: Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox

Estimate: 1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD

Washington, George | The commander in chief orders that Redcoat prisoners be treated "with humanity, and Let them have no reason to Complain of our Copying the brutal example of the Brittish Army"
Washington, George | The commander in chief orders that Redcoat prisoners be treated "with humanity, and Let them have no reason to Complain of our Copying the brutal example of the Brittish Army"

Estimate: 80,000 - 100,000 USD

Adams, John | Establishing an American Army: John Adams introduces a congressional committee charged with meeting with General Washington “concerning various Matters of Importance”
Adams, John | Establishing an American Army: John Adams introduces a congressional committee charged with meeting with General Washington “concerning various Matters of Importance”

Estimate: 150,000 - 250,000 USD

Lincoln, Abraham | The President refutes rebel press propaganda about the siege of Vicksburg
Lincoln, Abraham | The President refutes rebel press propaganda about the siege of Vicksburg

Estimate: 80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lincoln, Abraham | The President's letter to John Key—sent just four days after he issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln, Abraham | The President's letter to John Key—sent just four days after he issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation

Estimate: 200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lincoln, Abraham | The President thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated."
Lincoln, Abraham | The President thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated."

Estimate: 200,000 - 300,000 USD