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[Poker] [Hildreth, James] Dragoon Campaigns to the Rocky Mountains. New York: Wiley & Long, 1836. First edition. The first book to ever mention a poker game, in print, in English, in which it is described as ?a favorite game of cards at the south and west.? Publisher?s cloth, spine gilt. 8vo. 288pp. Rear flyleaf removed, burn marks with losses in lower margin from pgs. 227-88, without loss of text, intermittent foxing. Repaired chip at head of spine. Howes H471. Sabin 31769. Wagner-Camp 59.