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George Ade. Introduction to H.T. Webster's Poker Book, [?Brook, Indiana, 1924–25] 

Autograph manuscript signed ("George Ade"), 4 pages in pencil on plain wove paper; pages browned and silked. Twentieth-century full black morocco paneled gilt, marbled endpapers, spine lettered gilt.

George Ade (1866–1944) was an American writer and newspaper columnist who gained notoriety at the turn of the century with his column "Stories of the Street and of the Town" in which he used street language and slang to describe daily life in Chicago.

Webster's Poker Book was published in 1925 by Simon and Schuster and contains die-cut poker chips and humourous I.O.U.s. Ade's foreword mimics the lightheartedness of the book itself, and plays up the concept of the poker face: "Do you want to know of a game which is practically devoid of giggling? Some profanity all of the time and now and then a dash of manslaughter, but hardly any laughter except an occasional cackle from the dirty dog who runs a whiz in a jack-pot? Referring of course to poker."