-40%

POKER, SMOKE, And OTHER THINGS ~ 1907 vintage recipes cocktails toasts gambling

$ 79.2

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Condition: Good / Very Good Cover / Near Fine Interior - Clean, Tight Pages - Cover has wear - 1st Ed., 1907 - "Rules of poker by the banker, recipes by many friends, toasts from everywhere, mixed drinks by the bar-fan."
  • Original/Facsimile: Original
  • Illustrator: Albert Olson
  • Subject: Americana
  • Topic: Gambling
  • Year Printed: 1907
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Region: North America
  • Place of Publication: Chicago
  • Publisher: The Reilly & Britton Co.
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • Binding: Cloth with Pictorial Boards
  • Author: multiple
  • Special Attributes: Rare
  • Language: English

    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
    SEE PICTURES
    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."