THE COMPLETE POKER PLAYER

by Jack Blackbridge

$7,500 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix · No longer available

First edition · Signed

New York: Advance Publishing Company, 1875. Rare inscribed first edition of one of the earliest books dedicated to poker published in the US. Very good minus. Item #55903 Along with THE GAME OF DRAW-POKER of the same year by the almost certainly fictional Henry T. Winterblossom, THE COMPLETE POKER PLAYER is one the earliest published works dedicated to the game. By the equally likely pseudonymous Blackbridge, POKER

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