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GAMBLING EXPOSED. A FULL EXPOSITION OF ALL THE VARIOUS ARTS, MYSTERIES, AND MISERIES OF GAMBLING. By the "Reformed Gambler"...
por Green, Jonathan H
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Philadelphia, 1857. 312pp. plus 10pp. publisher's advertisements and six plates. Original brown publisher's cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Cloth lightly faded, tail of spine scuffed. Mild foxing to plates, else very clean. Very good plus. One of the classics in American gambling literature, written by Jonathan H. Green (1813-87), renowned professional gambler and later reformer. Green is the most important figure in the early literature of American gambling, a gambler who became a crusader against illegal gambling, and wrote many works devoted to exposing crime, cheating, and vice. "A reformed gambler's adventures among brother card-sharps, counterfeiters, etc., along the lower Mississippi, from Kentucky to Louisiana" - Howes. This is probably the third edition of Green's work originally published in 1844 as GAMBLING UNMASKED.... Green's works are some of the most elusive and important devoted to early American gambling. HOWES G365
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- GAMBLING EXPOSED. A FULL EXPOSITION OF ALL THE VARIOUS ARTS, MYSTERIES, AND MISERIES OF GAMBLING. By the "Reformed Gambler"...
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- Green, Jonathan H
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- Philadelphia
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- 1857
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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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