Search Results: The Odds Against Me by John Scarne

Simon & Schuster, 1966. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Simon & Schuster, 1966. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. The dust jacket is missing. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.

Simon & Schuster, 1966. hardcover. Good. 7x5x1. ***Please Read*** dj has some wear with some tears - No marks on text - My shelf location 40-c-50

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Good. 537p. A hardcover book in good condition with a like dustjacket. Tan stains on front endpaper and in margin of the next several pages. Otherwise, text clean and binding tight. The jacket has a closed tear on the front that has been covered with clear tape, plus some lighter wear along the top edge. Otherwise essentially intact. Classic memoirs of the magician especially known for his card tricks. Illustrated with a section of black and white photographs.

Simon & Schuster, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket in good condition. First edition, first printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is secure. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Simon and Schuster, 1966. 1st Ptg. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fair. (1st ptg.) Thick book, brown cloth spine, yellow boards, spine very slightly askew, first front end paper half-browned, 537 lightly browned pages. DJ glossy white lightly browned overall, image of a card with small photo on front and back. DJ has small v-chip at top front edge and bottom back edge, 3/4" tear at top back tip, jagged 3/4" tear with crease at top back spine indentation, two tiny tears at bottom back edge at tip. Fair DJ/Near Fine book.

E-143: Simon & Schuster. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1966. Second Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Simon and Schuster, New York. 1966. 537 pgs. Illustrated with 16 pages of photographs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. If he's had a touch of larceny in him, he could have been the number one card sharp of ail time. Instead the author of these fabulous memoirs, born to a mother who considered gambling "the devils tool" put his extraordinary gifts to far different purposes. He has used his incredible gambling sense, his miraculously dexterous fingers (as a magician he vied with Houdini) his brilliant mathematical mind, and his fascination with carnival and gambling life, to become America's number one authority… Read More

New York: Simon and Schuster, Inc. BOOK: 0.8 cm by 0.8 cm Shallow Gouge to Front Board; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Moderate Moisture Damage (Staining); Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Missing. SUB-TITLE: An Autobiography. DESIGNED BY: Edith Fowler. CONTENTS: 1. Meeting My First Card Cheats 2. A Postgraduate Course in Marked Cards and Crooked Dice 3. Fire Eaters, Sword Swallowers, and Carnival Gyps 4. Meeting the Racket Bosses of the Roaring Twenties 5. Fooling America's Greatest Magicians 6. My Psychic Experiences with Harry Houdini 7. A Bet with the Secret Service and a Performance for President Roosevelt 8. My $5,000 Challenge to the Magicians of the World 9. Gambling in the Army in World War II and What I Did About It 10. Beating the Black Jack and Baccarat Tables: My $100,000 Challenge 11. Adviser to Conrad Hilton on Gambling at the Caribe Hilton Casino in Puerto Rico 12. Gambling in More Ways Than One in… Read More

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966. 537pp/illus. Scarne author of many books such as Scarne on Dice/Cards/Card Tricks/Magic Tricks/etc. The autobiography of a man, had he chosen, would have been the greatest card shark of all times. He was the greatest practitioner of card and dice sleigt of hand ( his artistry impressed FDR as well as underworld overlords ) and during WW II he was chosen by the U.S. Army to show GI's how not to be fleeced in crooked games. . 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New York, USA.: Simon and Schuster. Bound in light brown cloth with darker brown textile backstrip, this dated 1966 First Printing, First Edition is VG (Close Fine) in Good plus dustjacket (unclipped). 537pp with 13 Chapters, 31 B/W Photos and Appendix. Lots of text on Magic and Cheating, especially interesting is Chapter 5, "Fooling America's Greatest Magicians", and a letter from Edgar Hoover reproduced in the text, thanking Scarne for a lecture on detecting cheating in gambling given to an FBI conference. Clean endpapers, pink top edge, and generally without fault. Dustjacket is 99.9% complete but with 7 tiny chips along top/bottom edges, mainly at spine. Thus condition VG with Good dustjacket . Very Good. Hardback. First Edition.. 1966.

Simon & Schuster. Collectible - Good. SIGNED/INSCRIBED! New York: Simon & Schuster, 1966. 1st edition. 8vo. 537pp. Illus. Signed by author on front free endpage. Good book. Good dust jacket. Dust jacket frayed along edges. Book is a bit dusty. (cards, blackjack, gambling, magic) Inquire if you need further information.