Gambling Memorabilia Featuring the Collection of Tom Blue

Ritter, F.R. Combined Treatise on Advantage Card Playing and Draw Poker. N.p., 1905. Original brown cloth lettered in gilt. Heavily illustrated with halftones showing blot-out, shade, line, scroll, and other marked cards, hold-outs (including the first-known published photograph of a Jacob’s Ladder-style sleeve hold-out), false cuts and deals. Oblong 4to. p. [1—2], 3—117 [188] + 2 blank leaves. Heavily stained covers, a square portion of the lower rear corner torn away; light to sometimes moderate spotting and soiling internally. Poor/fair. Rare.