ART OF PRACTICAL WHIST: Being a Series of Letters Descriptive of Every Part of the Game, and the Best Method of Becoming a Skilful Player, Embodying the Rules Adopted by the Arlington and Portland Clubs
by Drayson, Col. A. W. [Alfred Wilks]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good-/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: George Routledge and Sons (No Date) 216 pp. Original brown flexible cloth covers w/ gilt hand holding cards decoration on front cover. Binding lightly soiled and rubbed w/ light fraying to corners and spine ends. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down; pencil notes on front blank endpaper, dated 1907. Inner hinges starting. Bottom corner torn from front endpaper. Edges of leaves a bit age toned. Pencil markings to several leaves.. Good-/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Shoemaker Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8848
- Title
- ART OF PRACTICAL WHIST: Being a Series of Letters Descriptive of Every Part of the Game, and the Best Method of Becoming a Skilful Player, Embodying the Rules Adopted by the Arlington and Portland Clubs
- Author
- Drayson, Col. A. W. [Alfred Wilks]
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Routledge and Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Keywords
- FUN GAMES CARDS CARD GAMES WHIST REFERENCE GUIDE NONFICTION GENERAL
- Bookseller catalogs
- Reference; Fun;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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About the Seller
Shoemaker Booksellers
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
About Shoemaker Booksellers
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 12mo
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Soiled
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
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- Leaves
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