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Lot 518

[CONFIDENCE MEN]. A group of 3 books. Includes: DEVOL, Geor...

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[CONFIDENCE MEN]. A group of 3 books. Includes: DEVOL, George H. Forty Years A Gambler on the Mississippi. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1926. 8vo. Publisher?s red cloth stamped in black. Provenance: Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls (bookplate). ? MASKELYNE, John Nevil. Sharps and Flats. New York: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1894. Frontispiece with illustrations. Publisher?s pictorial red cloth stamped in black (rubbing, sunning to spine). ? PRUS, Robert C. Road Hustler: The Career Contingencies of Professional Card and Dice Hustlers. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath and Company, 1977. Both 8vos. Overall condition good.