The Education of a Poker Player, Including Where and How One Learns To Win by Yardley, Herbert O - 1957

Jonathan Cape, London, 1979. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. clean copy, no damage to the dust jacket apart from a slight yellowing at the top right of the front cover where a price sticker resided, internally clean, no annotations, although on the inside of the front cover there is a rubber ownership stamp with previous owners name. There is an introduction to this new edition by A. Alvarez. "Soon after that a friend lent me Herbert O. Yardley's The Education of a Poker Player and I began to understand what the game is about. Not like, but calculation, memory, patience, skill and reckoning the odds and percentages, and above all, observation; the ability to recognise and interpret the small fidgets and quirks, the hesitations, the voice's faint changes in timbre which indicate tension or confidence." – Page VIII revised. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. XIV, 142 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s).… Read More

NY: SIMON & SCHUSTER. VG. Hardcover. NINTH PRINTING. 1957.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957. 8vo. x, 129, [1] pp. Green cloth, blue & red lettrng (mnr shlfwr), w/ d.j. (mnr chppng hd of spine, 1 sml clsd tear, price-clppd), VG/VG- copy. Early printing of this book on training to be a poker player, by the noted codebreaker and cryptographer.

Simon and Schuster, 1957. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1957. Eighth Printing. 129 pages. Dust jacket over yellow cloth. Pages are faintly tanned. Mild cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing. Mild sunning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Mild droplet stain to front board. Book has forward lean. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Mild water staining to front panel. Heavy tanning to spine and edges. Light rubbing and marking all over.