squash publishing chicago il (14 resultados)

Hard Cover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. First Edition. 136 pages Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Glossy Hardback. Condición: VG Plus. No Jacket. 1st. Contents fine and unmarked Cover shows the slightest of wear. About Very good plus used condition. Scarce interesting book on playing cards of different sorts and the games - all in photographs with historic text. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hard Cover. Condición: New. No Jacket. First Printing. 194 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Photos, 9.25 x 6", green cloth, 136pp with index, minor extremity bumping and wear, in a rubbed and lightly soiled dustjacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. SCARCE.

Illustr, 9.25 x 6, decorated green cloth, 136 pp with index, a very nice copy in lightly rubbed dust jacket. FIRST ED, FIRST PRINTING, WARMLY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. Very good with slight foxing (tan stains) to top edge of text block. In fine dust jacket. No markings, no bookplate. No jacket chips or tears. A collection of self working card tricks.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. First Edition. As new in as new dust jacket. Suitable for gift-giving. No markings, no bookplate. No jacket tears or chips.

Condición: very good. Red pictorial boards, well-illustrated, 91 pages. A documentation of the author's collection of playing card related photographs, with descriptions for each image. Mild bumping to corners, else in very good condition.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Printing. 2006. 1st Printing. Fine hardback book. Fine dust jacket. An as new copy in a comparable Brodart-protected dust jacket. 168pp. Sm 4to. (Uu).

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. No markings, no bookplate. No jacket chips or tears. Suitable for gift-giving. A collection of self working card tricks.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Illustrated with black & white drawings. xix, 435 pages. 4to. Hardcover: pictorial boards. Hint of foxing to the top edge, otherwise fine. Very Good.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. Hardcover, 521 pages. Red Cloth variant, 2nd edition. Illustrated with B&W photos. Book has light shelf wear but generally appears unread. Interior clean except for light pencil erasures to corner of first 2 pages.

Condición: fine, new. Written by Alfred Trumble and first published in 1882, Faro Exposed was a landmark book on America's favorite crooked card game. It explains the origin, rules, and history of Faro, as well as the sophisticated methods used by card cheats to beat the odds. Twenty years before Erdnase, Faro Exposed explained the riffle stacking and gaffed dealing boxes, along with countless other subterfuges and sleights used to "get the money" in a game that was, until the rise of poker, America's national pass-time. Among the techniques described are rough, sanded, rounded, and stripped cards; gaffed faro boxes; dodges with alluring names like "The Coffee Mill," "Squared Sights and Tie Ups," "Horse Hair," and sundry other card-sharping methods. The author sums up faro's crooked nature on page 47, "There is not in the United States to-day one single faro-banker who is willing and content to confine himself to the strict percentage of an honest game. They practice every trick, cheat, fraud, device, contrivance, skin and scheme known in to the 'trade,' save and except that which they themselves do not know. Nothing but the fear of detection will prevent them from taking every possible advantage of their customers." Despite its importance and focus, the book is virtually unknown today, due in part to the fact that only three copies have survived. Not even the Library of Congress owns a copy of the original work.) With an introduction by noted card expert Jason England. A deluxe hardbound volume, with 98 pages in sewn binding, a full-color recreation of the original wrapper and all text digitally re-screened and enhanced. Illustated with woodcuts. Limited edition of 500. New (fine) condition.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. Earle Oakes Ilustrador. Still in shrink wrap.