Gambling Memorabilia
Sat, Apr 14, 2018 12:30AM EDT
Lot 170
Group of Eight Vintage and Antiquarian Volumes on Cheating, Swindling and Manipulation.
Estimate: $200 - $300
Bid Increments
| Price | Bid Increment |
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| $0 | $5 |
| $30 | $10 |
| $100 | $25 |
| $500 | $50 |
| $1,000 | $100 |
| $2,000 | $200 |
| $5,000 | $500 |
| $10,000 | $1,000 |
| $20,000 | $2,000 |
| $50,000 | $5,000 |
| $100,000 | $10,000 |
Group of Eight Vintage and Antiquarian Volumes on Cheating, Swindling and Manipulation. Including A Morning in Cork-Street: or, Raising the Wind (London, 1822); Memoirs of the Notorious Stephen Burroughs of New Hampshire (New York, 1924); Card Sharpers: Their Tricks Exposed by Robert-Houdin (Chicago, 1902); The Blacke Bookes Messenger 1592 by Robert Greene (New York, 1924); The Autobiography of a Criminal by Henry Tufts (New York, 1930); The Bunco Book by Walter B. Gibson (Holyoke, 1946; signed by the publisher, Sidney H. Radner); and a bound volume of The Cosmopolitan containing the article ?Card Sharps and Their Tools? by Champion Bissell (1891). Plus a copy of The Connecticut Mirror from 1815 containing an article about William Long, a notorious cheat. 8vo or 4to. Conditions mostly good.
