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ANON. The American Card-Player: Containing Clear and Comprehensive Directions For Playing the Games of Euchre, Whist, Bezique, All-Fours... Straight and Draw Poker, and Whiskey Poker: Together With All the Laws of Those Games...
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, (1866). First edition. 8vo., original rust cloth stamped in gilt on the upper cover and spine, (152), (8)pp.ads. A few marks to the upper board, spine ends have a touch of wear, but still a better than very good but not quite near fine copy.
One of the earliest books to provide rules for straight and draw poker and the first American book to do so.
ANON. The American Card-Player: Containing Clear and Comprehensive Directions For Playing the Games of Euchre, Whist, Bezique, All-Fours... Straight and Draw Poker, and Whiskey Poker: Together With All the Laws of Those Games... New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, (1866). First edition. 8vo., original rust cloth stamped in gilt on the upper cover and spine, (152), (8)pp.ads. A few marks to the upper board, spine ends have a touch of wear, but still a better than very good but not quite near fine copy.
One of the earliest books to provide rules for straight and draw poker and the first American book to do so.
$2,250
