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THB[EVANS, Gerritt] “A Retired Professional," pseudo. How Gamb...
Lot 116
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Rare and collectible playing cards, vintage and modern puzzles, antique games and gambling items, and curiosities alike will all cross the block in this collaboration between Potter & Potter and Art of Play. Prices Realized Potter & Potter Auctions info@potterauctions.com
Rare and collectible playing cards, vintage and modern puzzles, antique games and gambling items, and curiosities alike will all cross the block in this collaboration between Potter & Potter and Art of Play. Prices Realized Potter & Potter Auctions info@potterauctions.com
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[EVANS, Gerritt] ?A Retired Professional," pseudo.?How Gamblers Win.?New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1868. Cloth-backed pictorial boards. Illustrated. 12mo. p. [4] ads., 112, [20] ads. Nice firm copy, board edges bumped and rubbed. Toole Stott 395.One of the earliest American works to describe the techniques of crooked gamblers, and perhaps the first to focus heavily on cheating in poker. Within a few years of the publication of the first edition (in 1865), the work was reprinted by Dick & Fitzgerald in the form offered here, who credited the author anonymously as ?A Retired Professional," after which it became one of the most widely disseminated books on ?advantage" play of the century, running through multiple editions and bindings.
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