Scarne on Cards Tricks

by John Scarne

£48 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

New York: Crown Publishers 1959. Sleight of hand, cheating, gambling Fourth printing. Octavo 22 x 15cm , pp.308. Publisher's red cloth in pictorial jacket. Owner label to rear pastedown. Worn wrapper with a some chips and tears, loss to rear corner, taped to rear, spine sunned. The follow-up to Scarne on Cards, which was a James Bond source book cited by Ian Feming in the novel Moonraker 1955 ; prior to the bridge game with fraudster Sir Hugo Drax, Bond

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