THE GAME OF DRAW POKER...INCLUDING THE TREATISE BY R.C. SCHENK AND RULES FOR THE NEW GAME OF PROGRESSIVE POKER
by Keller, John W
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- Hardcover
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: White, Stokes & Allen, 1887.. iv,84pp. Original color pictorial boards, backed in original blue cloth. Contemporary pencil ownership inscription, "The Honble. Mrs. C.M. Ramsay 618 Fifth Ave," on front free endpaper. Cloth and boards moderately worn and scuffed. Internally clean and bright. A very good copy. The rare first edition of one of the earliest books devoted to the subject of draw poker, with an attractive chromolithographic illustration of a royal flush on the front cover. "Nor is the love that [draw poker] engenders confined to any social class or classes. Rich and poor, high and low, good and bad, male and female yield to the fascinations of Poker. Among its votaries are to be found statesmen, priests, financiers, littérateurs, artists, tradesmen and artisans" (pp.3-4). OCLC records eight copies. Scarce.
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- Bookseller
- William Reese Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WRCAM39901
- Title
- THE GAME OF DRAW POKER...INCLUDING THE TREATISE BY R.C. SCHENK AND RULES FOR THE NEW GAME OF PROGRESSIVE POKER
- Author
- Keller, John W
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- White, Stokes & Allen
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1887.
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William Reese Company
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About William Reese Company
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With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization, and we are equipped to produce smaller lists devoted to specific subjects with ease in response to requests.
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