WEBSTER'S POKER BOOK. Glorifying America's Favorite Game. A Handy Volume for the Hearthside Consisting of Fifty Portraits...Informative and Diverting Text on the Joys, Rules, Lore and Pitfalls of Poker...Side Line Suggestions and Interpolations...etc.
by H. T. Webster / George F. Worts / Marc Connelly / R. F. Foster / George Ade
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
Item Price
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About This Item
N. Y.: Simon & Schuster. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 1925. First Edition, Rebound . Large Hardback. 7" x 10" A NICELY REBOUND FIRST EDITION.The original covers have been replaced with a nice buckram binding, with a dark reddish brown backstrip, gilt lettering to spine, and some new blank endpapers. The original interior pages are all present, and show some age-darkening to paper, (with a couple of pages showing a small tear at bottom edge and one with a crease in the middle) but, overall the pages are remarkably well perserved for their age, in very good condition, and entirely clean throughout. (This copy does NOT have the extra poker booklet and pieces found in the rear of the original binding). WEBSTER'S POKER BOOK: Glorifying America's Favorite Game. A Handy Volume for the Hearthside Consisting of Fifty Portraits by H. T. WEBSTER; Informative and Diverting Text on the Joys, Rules, Lore and Pitfalls of Poker by GEORGE F. WORTS; Side Line Suggestions and Interpolations by MARC CONNELLY; Authoritative Data on the History and Technique of Poker, Including Hints from Hoyle by R. F. FOSTER, and a Foreward by GEORGE ADE. Published by Simon & Schuster, 1925. Large Hardcover, approx. 7" x 10", rebound in bright and solid contemporary binding, no jacket. Binding in Near Fine Condition, Interior pages in Very good condition.128 pages, Illustrated throughout with 50 wonderful cartoon drawings ("Portraits") by Webster. All together a handsome and useful volume of a hard to find book. .
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- Bookseller
- Balcony Books and Records
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9973
- Title
- WEBSTER'S POKER BOOK. Glorifying America's Favorite Game. A Handy Volume for the Hearthside Consisting of Fifty Portraits...Informative and Diverting Text on the Joys, Rules, Lore and Pitfalls of Poker...Side Line Suggestions and Interpolations...etc.
- Author
- H. T. Webster / George F. Worts / Marc Connelly / R. F. Foster / George Ade
- Format/Binding
- Large Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good/No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition, Rebound
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- N. Y.
- Date Published
- 1925
- Keywords
- Poker, Games, Gambling
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