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Wed, Sep 18, 2019 12:30AM EDT
Lot 401

Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi.

Estimate: $300 - $500

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Devol, George. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi. Cincinnati: Devol & Haines, 1887. First edition. Publisher?s blue cloth stamped gilt and blind, neatly rebacked with the original backstrip retained, new endpapers. Portrait frontispiece of Devol, four plates. 8vo. 300pp. Cloth moderately rubbed and frayed, occasional chipping to margins, owner?s signature to verso of frontis. A rare edition, not recorded in Jessel.