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POKER, SMOKE, And OTHER THINGS ~ 1907 vintage recipes cocktails toasts gambling
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Description
~ First Edition, 1907 ~Poker, Smoke, and Other Things
All Authors:
W M Rhoads; Albert Olson;
George C Warton; Percy Hammond
"Rules of poker by the banker, recipes by many friends,
toasts from everywhere, mixed drinks by the bar-fan."
Rare
Good / Very Good Cover - Excellent / Near Fine Interior
Bound in Red Cloth and Pictorial Boards
Cover has some Wear
Near Fine Interior
Tight Binding
5.5" x 8"
Numerous cartoon style illustrations in blue and orange ink
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Written in a tongue and cheek style, they start out, "It is wrong to play poker--the way some men play it." Then claiming that poker was played even at the time of Adam and Eve, they humorously prove their assertion by saying, "The bible speaks of Cain 'raising his hand' against Abel."