ERDNASE, S.W.?The Expert at the Card Table.?Chicago: Frederick J. Drake, 1905. Maroon cloth decoratively stamped gilt and blind. Illustrated ?from life" by M.D. Smith. 16mo. Cloth lightly spotted at edges, light bump at head; clean internally. In a handsome drop spine box, one third leather over maroon cloth with gilt titling and rules, and banded spine. Very good overall.A SCARCE early clothbound edition of this perennial work on card manipulation and artifice, and perhaps more uncommon than the 1902 first edition.