The American Card-Player: Containing Clear and Comprehensive Directions.

New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, [1866].

Price: $1,500.00


About the item

First edition. 151, [1, blank], [8]pp. Ads in the rear. 12mo. Publisher's russet cloth, upper cover stamped in gilt. Some fading and wear to the binding, dampstaining principally in the upper corner and upper gutter margin. Provenance: Paul Fenimore Cooper (signature on title, James Fenimore Cooper's great-grandson).

Item #323089

Includes sections on euchre, whist, bezique, all-fours, pitch, commerical pitch, French fours, all fives, cassino, cribbage, straight poker, draw poker and whiskey poker.