EVANS, Gerritt M. How Gamblers Win. New York: Author, (1865). First edition. Original brown cloth, title stamped in gilt to front cover, pale yellow endpapers. 12mo. 84pp. Some mild wear, some soiling to binding, some soiling, light wear to endleaves, a hole to front hinge, a few gutters overopened, light foxing to text. A fine copy. Exceedingly rare; one of a mere handful of copies known, two of which are institutional holdings. One of the earliest American works to describe the techniques of crooked gamblers, and perhaps the first to focus heavily on cheating in poker. Within a few years of the publication of the first edition, the work was reprinted by Dick & Fitzgerald, who credited the author anonymously as ?A Retired Professional,? after which it became one of the most widely disseminated books on ?advantage? play of the century.