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. ERDNASE, S. W. The Expert at the Card Table. Chicago: Author, 1902. Publisher's green cloth lettered gilt with acorn devices. Illustrated “from life" by Marshall D. Smith. 8vo. Spine darkened with the cloth lightly fraying at ends, corners gently rubbed and faintly bumped, faint scuffs to cover. Very clean internally, with usual browning from age. A near fine copy of this “bible" of card manipulation at the gambling table that has remained not only influential, but constantly in print since this, the first edition, appeared on the scene at the dawn of the twentieth century.