Gambling Memorabilia Featuring the Collection of Tom Blue
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Lot 154
[Secrets of Card Playing. Sensational Exposures of all the Latest Ways of Cheating].
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[Secrets of Card Playing. Sensational Exposures of all the Latest Ways of Cheating]. Moscow, 1912. Original green wrappers retained in library cloth. 8vo. 268pp, four-page index [i-iv]. Library blind-stamps of magician-mentalist C.A. George Newmann. Contemporary bookseller stamp of F. Bileckchy (Detroit, Mich.) to title. Very good. Scarce and unusual Russian-language book exposing various methods of cheating. Laid inside is a typed English summary of the contents of each chapter, which include sleight of hand techniques, cheating by confederacy and signals, and other means of sharping at cards and games.
