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[POKER]. Group of Books on the Game of Poker. Eleven items. Includes: BROWN, Garrett. The Autocrat of the Poker Table, or How to Play the Game to Win. Boston: The Gorham Press, 1916. Full-page illustrations of poker-player types by Garrett Brown, Jr. — CONLIN, William Jermyn (“William James Florence” 1831 - 1891). A Gentleman’s Hand-Book on Poker. New York: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1892. Uncommon binding. Jessel 511. — HAMMOND, Percy (1873 - 1936), and George C. Wharton. Poker, Smoke and Other Things. Chicago: Reilly & Britton, 1907. Extensive illustrations by Albert Olson. — HARDISON, Theodore. Poker. [St. Louis: Hardison, ca. 1914]. Lacks title page, with reproduction laid in. — HOYLE, Edmond, and Thomas Matthews (compiled from). Whist, Loo, Euchre, and Poker. New York: Dick & Fitzgerald [ca. 1870s]. — JONES, Major. A Losing Game of Poker, from the “Yankee Comic Tales” series. Glasgow & London: Cameron & Ferguson, [ca. 1876]. — KELLER, John W. The Game of Draw Poker. New York: White, Stokes, & Allen, 1887. FIRST EDITION. Jessel 1032. — MEEHAN, Charles Henry Wharton (1817 - 1872). Laws and Practice of the Game of Euchre and of Draw Poker. Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Brothers, 1877. With advertising circular for the book laid in. An expanded edition of Jessel 1180, to which the rules of poker have been added. — MOREHEAD, Albert H. (ed.). Poker: The Nation’s Most Fascinating Card Game. Cincinatti: The United States Playing Card Company, [1950]. — PHILPOTS, Edward P. A Treatise on Poker. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1904. Jessel 1329. — PROCTOR, Richard A. Poker Principles and Chance Laws. New York: Dick & Fitzgerald [ca. 1884]. FIRST EDITION. Jessel 1390. Many illustrated. Largest 8vo. Various bindings. Conditions commensurate with age. A good group.