This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/30/2021
Green, Jonathan H. (1813–1887). Gambling Unmasked! Or, the Personal Experience of the Reformed Gambler. New York: Burgess, Stringer & Co., 1844. Original embossed brown cloth with central gilt device to upper cover (ends worn, lacking front free endpaper, some marginal toning). 12mo. Frontispiece and several full–page plates. FIRST EDITION from the most important early writer on gambling in America. Howes states that some copies have the New York imprint instead of the Philadelphia imprint. Howes G365; Jessel 664. ”A reformed gambler’s adventures among brother card-sharps, counterfeiters, etc., along the lower Mississippi, from Kentucky to Louisiana” (Howes).