Gambling Memorabilia Featuring the Collection of Tom Blue

Poker Chips: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Stories of the Great American Game. New York: Frank Tousey, 1896 Five (of six) issues, lacking N3 (Aug. 1896). Each in original color lithographed wrappers. 8vo. Tears, creases, and scattered abrasions to covers; some marginal dampstaining, but overall good or very good. Rare. Tousey, a publisher of chapbooks and street literature, managed to put out only six issues of Poker Chips before folding it into The White Elephant (advertised on rear cover of the terminal issue), which promised tales of a “wider literary scope” by authors including Twain, Crane, and Kipling.