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Sat, Mar 28, 2020 12:00PM EDT
Lot 164

Tinker, Edward Larocque. The Palingenesis of Craps.

Estimate: $50 - $150

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Tinker, Edward Larocque. The Palingenesis of Craps. New York: Press of the Wooly Whale, 1933. Number 105 of 400 copies. Cloth-backed boards, letterpress printed on handmade paper. Slim 12mo. 8pp. Page numbering expressed as faces of dice. A short history of how the game of Craps came to America by way of New Orleans, and the man who brought it there, Bernard Xavier Philippe de Marigny de Mandeville.