Gambling Memorabilia Featuring the Collection of Tom Blue
Fri, Mar 1, 2019 04:30AM EST
Lot 95
The Handbook of Swindling.
Estimate: $900 - $1,300
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| $5,000 | $500 |
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(Jerrold, Douglas) Barabbas Whitefeather, pseudo. The Handbook of Swindling. London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. Presentation copy, inscribed ?With the publisher?s compliments? on the title verso. Publisher?s limp cloth, gilt vignette of the King of Spades, cards, and dice, a.e.g. Half-title page, engraved frontispiece and three plates by ?Phiz.? 8vo. 87pp. Cloth with small stains and some rippling; light spotting to plates, otherwise good.
