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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. [2], 3-117 [118] + 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. Provenance: Kenneth Klosterman (bookplate).