Gambling Memorabilia Featuring the Collection of Tom Blue

Lot #82:

Fifty Years at the Card Table. The Autobiography of an Old Sport, Being the Record of a Career Famous for Adventure and Vicissitude, and in Which the Jester Won More Tricks Than the Gamester.

Dodge, Harry P. Fifty Years at the Card Table. The Autobiography of an Old Sport, Being the Record of a Career Famous for Adventure and Vicissitude, and in Which the Jester Won More Tricks Than the Gamester. Syracuse, N.Y., 1885. First edition. Original printed wrappers. Portrait frontis. 12mo. 111pp, [10] ads. Some minor soiling, signature dated 1915 to front endpaper, small hole to one leaf, else very good. The exploits of the “nomadic” gambler Dupley Dodge, whose travels took him west from his birthplace in Howlett Hill to Chicago, St. Louis, and onto Mississippi riverboats. Much of the action takes place against the backdrop of the outbreak of the Civil War.