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Talbot, J.R. Turf, Cards and Temperance; or Reminiscences of a Checkered Life. Bristol Rhode Island: Eastern Publishing, 1882. Black cloth stamped in blind and gilt. 4to. Cloth rubbed, binding shaken. Good. Not in Powell or Howes. Scarce. An autobiography that describes, in great detail, this sporting man’s transgressions as they relate to gambling, faro, and poker up and down the Mississippi and in New Orleans.