Gambling Memorabilia Featuring the Collection of Tom Blue

Plummer, A. Newton. The Great American Swindle Incorporated. New York: A. Newton Plummer, 1932. Limited first edition, one of 2,000 copies. Cloth-backed pictorial boards. 8vo. Cartoonish plates, text illustrations. Bumped edge lower right, overall a handsome, clean and tight copy. Scarce. An expose, written by a “trusted agent” of Wall Street, of the debauchery and greed of stock brokers that led to the market crash of 1929. While many of the men on Wall Street operated honestly, Plummer writes, it took only “a few gamblers to dominate” its ranks for the institution to fall.