The American Card-Player containing Clear & Comprehensive Directions for playing Whist, Euchre, Napoleon, Cribbage, Bezique, 66, Penuchle, Cassino, Straight and Draw Poker, Jack-Pots, All-Fours, Pitc
Author:
ANON
Title:
The American Card-Player containing Clear & Comprehensive Directions for playing Whist, Euchre, Napoleon, Cribbage, Bezique, 66, Penuchle, Cassino, Straight and Draw Poker, Jack-Pots, All-Fours, Pitc
Subtitle:
including all the Modern Varieties of those Games and their Revised Laws
Publisher:
Dick & Fitzgerald 1881
Description:
Small octavo, heavy card boards with 'lone hand' illustration to front board, dark blue cloth spine with gilt or yellow (?) lettering, five yellow advert pages to prelims & terminals, vii + 149pp + 30pp book adverts, VG- (heavy rubbing & fraying to board edges, corners & spine extrems, fading to spine so unclear whether lettering was gilt or just yellow, some staining to rear board, some rubbing & chaffing to front board, owner's name in pencil to fep, moderate browning to page edges, sporadic foxing) A reasonble copy, better than the description suggests (ask for photos)
Keywords:
American card playing card games rules entertainment gambling the American Hoyle
