Gambling Memorabilia Featuring the Collection of Tom Blue

Lot #24:

Hands Up; or, Thirty-Five Years of Detective Life in the Mountains and on the Plains.

Cook, D.J. and John W. Cook (compiler). Hands Up; or, Thirty-Five Years of Detective Life in the Mountains and on the Plains. Denver: W.F. Robinson, 1897. Publisher’s maroon cloth, gilt lettered. Illustrated with full-page plates by Proctor. 8vo. 442pp. With a tipped-in autograph note and carbon copy of a letter by Clark B. Stocking to the previous owner, attesting to the overall accuracy of Cook’s work, in part: “The worst element we had was the shyster lawyer and the dirty judges. They knew more law than good principle.”) Bookplate of Edmund Seymour, to whom the correspondence is addressed. Very good. Howes 728. Adams, Six-Guns 241.