The Complete Card Player

by James Bond source book, Alfred Ostrow

$48 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

London: The Bodley Head, 1949. Card games FIRST EDITION. Octavo 21 x 15cm , pp.772. Publisher's grey cloth hardcovers suitably blocked in red and black. Contents clean, edges a little dusty, covers with a few marks, spine toned. Ostrow's manual was the first-ever book to be reviewed by the future James Bond novelist Ian Fleming, his article published in the Daily Graphic, 28th Sept. 1949. Fleming was a keen card player, and cards and high stakes would be a

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