New York: Gilliss Brothers, 1884. First edition. Written and illustrated in the lowest and broadest tradition of racial caricature. Read More about The Thompson Street Poker Club from "Life"

New York: George Blackie & Co, n.d., ca. 1870. Includes marked playing cards, gambling and magic books, magic tricks, novelties, and all sorts of curiosities and miscellany (such as "False Moustaches, that cannot be detected when worn") offered by New York wholesale agents George Blackie & Co. Read More about Kuaint, Kueer and Kurios, and Book of New Receipts, with Catalogue of Novelties and Wonders...

Newville, Cumberland County, PA: C.D. Rishel, Publisher, 1890. First thus. Howes erroneously calls this a reprint of the Confession of David Lewis published in Carlisle, PA, in 1820 and reprinted in 1853. This work incorporates the Confession but contains much new material as well. Published, according to the editor's Preface... Read More about The Life and Adventures of David Lewis, the Robber and Counterfeiter. The Terror of the...

New York: George Routledge & Sons, 1892. First American edition. The rules and play of poker, with a chapter on poker sharps describing marked cards and other cheats. Read More about The Gentlemen's Hand-Book on Poker

Danbury, Conn: Behrens Publishing Company, 1880. Second edition, wrappered issue with Behrens imprint. The first Behrens edition of this foundational work on poker, essentially a wrappered issue of the second Dick & Fitzgerald edition of 1880. The rare first edition of 1875 — with only one copy located on OCLC... Read More about The Complete Poker Player

New York: William H. Murphy, 1875. First edition. Draw Poker, 1875: its Rules and Math. First edition of this important early mathematical approach to poker; along with Blackbridge's The Complete Poker Player (1875), it is the earliest book devoted soley to the game. The author, Henry T. Winterblossom, advertises himself... Read More about The Game of Draw-Poker, Mathematically Illustrated; Being a Complete Treatise on the Game, Giving...

Paris: 1898. Underneath his printed name Massenet has added this autograph note, "avec mon plus sincère félicitations & ma meilleur sentiments. M" Read More about Printed calling card with autograph inscription, initialed ("M"

New York: E.F. Dutton, [1923]. First American edition. Read More about The Underworld of London

London: Chapman and Hall, 1854. First edition. The earliest known mention of the blow book was by Gerolamo Cardano in 1550, who described the trick by mentioning "conjurors show different and always unlike pictures in one and the same book" Read More about Jerome Cardan. The Life of Girolamo Cardano of Milan, Physician

London: Leadenhall Press, Ltd. 50 Leadenhall Street, 1893. Read More about A History of English Lotteries Now for the First Time Written

London: Duckworth & Co, 1898. First Edition. Read More about The History of Gambling in England

n.p. [London]: 1711; and 1724 (Key). One of four 12mo editions of 1711 (sequence unknown) probably #4. Read More about A Tale of a Tub, Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind; to which is added An Account...