converted gambler de mason long (85 resultados)

PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condición: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Tenth Thousand. 12mo; 280, [ii] pages, cloth, lacks free endpapers, some pencilled artwork by a prior owner. " Long came to Fort Wayne in 1865, but his pre-Summit City life is worth mentioning. Born in 1842, both his parents died by the time he turned 10. He was bound out to a wealthy German farmer as a ``white slave'' but in 1862 joined the Union Army to fight in the Civil War. During his Army stint, another soldier taught him a $25 card trick which earned him $400 after the next payday. By then, gambling was in his blood. After coming to Fort Wayne, Long opened a restaurant and gambling house. Gambling was for a time profitable, but it left him penniless by 1877. Destitution turned Long off of alcohol and on to Christianity. He wrote a book called ``Mason Long, the Converted Gambler.'' He also made several evangelistic tours to promote his new-found faith - Kevin Leininger." Long also wrote SAVE THE GIRLS, which was another crusade of his. Long joined the 112th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry.

PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Very Good. Mason was a Union soldier, later became a gambler and alcholic who found temperance and conversion to Christianity. This book would hold special interest to those studying Fort Wayne, Indiana as he spent much of his time in the bars and gambling dens of this city. Front hinge starting, and a pinhole on the title page.

hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Fifth or Later Edition. Fort Wayne, 1887; brown cloth covered boards; black design; edge and corner wear; spine edges bumped; 12mo - over 6 3/4" to 7 3/4" tall; interior clean and unmarked; 280 pages.

HRD. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 12mo. 5-280 pages, [4] pages of advertisements. Frontispiece sketched portrait. Illustrations. Red cloth hardcover with black designs and gilt title on the front cover and spine. Light edge and shelf wear to the cloth binding.

HRD. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 280 pp.+ Illus Plts, Grn Illus Hardback, Gilt title, cover worn with spine fray & bare corners, lacks ff e.p., else Fair-Good, 10th ed.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Fourth edition, later printing. 16mo. 280pp., 5pp. advertisements in rear. Decorative green cloth stamped in black and gilt. Portrait frontispiece, six illustrations. Pages age-toned, hinges cracked, cloth worn and soiled, spine a bit cocked, small dampstain on foredge, a good only copy. Title continuation: "Being a record of his experience as a white slave; a soldier in the Union Army; a professional gambler; a patron of the turf; a variety theater and minstrel manager; and, finally, a Convert to the Murphy Cause, and to the Gospel of Christ.".

Paperback. Condición: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Hardcover. Condición: Poor. No Jacket. 280 Pages; 13 Chapters With Preface In Front; Ads For Other Books In Rear Of Book. String Binding; Pages Show Age Toning And Yellowing On Margins. Page Edges Darkened. Full Page Illustrations Throughout Book Including Frontispiece Image Of Mason Long In Front. Previous Owner Name Inked On Front End Page; Extensive Foxing On End Pages. Front Inner Spine Crease Weakened And Split Revealing Inner Cloth Binding But Pages Intact. Faded And Rubbed Brown Boards With Gild Lettering On Front Cover And Spine. Ornate Design On Front Cover; Wear And Some Fraying On Cover Edges, Corners And Spine Ends. Author Shares His Short Rather Eventful Life, Hoping That Others Will Take Warning From His Follies And Crimes And Realize From His Experience That "The Way Of The Transgressor Is Hard." Very Rare Vintage Copy.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. AMERICAN HISTORY. Original cloth with darkeneing to spine & some mild discoloration to rear. 256pp. Illustrated. Indiana settings.

PF. Condición: New.

Paperback. Condición: New.

PF. Condición: New.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. Small octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's blue decorative cloth embossed in blue and black and gilt letters. Blue-grey glazed end papers; 256pp.; frontispiece, full-page illus. Wear to extremities, spine gilt is still readable and the spine is somewhat dulled, but still readable. The tips of the spine are worn and exposed, as ares the edges of the book. All four corners are rubbed and exposed. As is, it is a good working book. Light foxing throughout. . Memoir of the professional gambler/drunk-turned-evangelist. See BANTA's Indiana Authors and Their Books, p. 195. A working first edition, good for research and priced accordingly. Not Signed.

12mo. 280 pp., plus 4 pp. publ. ads. Frntsp., numerous plates. Red decorated diced cloth, blk & gilt decrtn & lettrng (mnr rubbng, lght uniform toning to interior, drkng to the spine), VG- copy. Fourth edition, revised & expanded, of this memoir about his life as an indentured servant, his hardships as a soldier during the Civil War, and finally became gambler and drunk in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He gives an excellent account of Francis Murphy's temperance movement.

Condición: New. KlappentextrnrnExcerpt from The Life of Mason Long, the Converted Gambler: Being a Record of His Experience as a White Slave A Soldier in the Union Army A Professional Gambler A Patron of the Turf A Variety Theater and Minstrel Manager, And,.

Paperback. Condición: New. Print on Demand. This book is a raw and unvarnished, first-hand account of the author's military service during the American Civil War, his struggle with addiction, and his eventual redemption. The author pulls no punches as he vividly describes some of the bloodiest battles of the war and the unimaginable horrors he witnessed. Yet even as he recounts the brutality and senseless loss, the author also paints a picture of intense camaraderie and brotherhood among the soldiers. After the war, the author battled alcohol addiction for many years before eventually finding sobriety through the Murphy cause and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This book offers a fascinating perspective on the brutality of the Civil War as well as powerful insights into the redemptive power of faith. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The life of Mason Long, the converted gambler: - Being a record of his experience as a white slave, a soldier in the Union Army, a professional gambler, a patron of the turf, a variety theater and minstrel manager, and, finally, a convert to the Murph is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1878.Hans Elektronisches Buch is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hans Elektronisches Buch newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 248 pp. Englisch.

Condición: New.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original publisher's dark blue cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. "Mason Long, the Converted Gambler" printed on spine. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2." 256 pages, complete. Pages are very clean and intact except for light age toning and small faint occasional spots or stains. Covers are very clean and intact except for slight darkening (more noticeable along spine) and slight bumping and wear to corners and head and tail of spine. A Very Good copy. This is the autobiography of Mason Long (1842-1903) who wrote about his life in the hopes that he might guide younger men to live a life far different from his own. He hopes to prevent them from falling into a life of iniquity like he did. However, Long's story is also one of redemption as he eventually quit gambling, became a temperance advocate, and converted to Christianity. Long writes unsparingly about his earlier life plagued by gambling and drinking addictions and participation in criminal enterprises. He takes an unflinching approach in recounting several parts of his life in which he had run-ins with the law and experienced great hardships. Long was born in Luray, Ohio. His father and mother both passed away by the time he was 10 years old. Long was then bonded as a slave for seven years to a wealthy farmer in Medina County, Ohio. Long says he ascribes his criminal lifestyle in adulthood to his experience as a slave to this farmer. He was forced to clear land and work on a sugar plantation with no pay and only little clothes and boarding in exchange for his excruciating workload. Long was also not allowed to see his relatives when they visited, and he describes an instance in which he was whipped in punishment for speaking briefly to one of them. Long was supposed to go to school for two months each year, but he says that in all of his seven years of bondage, he was only permitted to attend school for three months. Long describes finally being freed from bondage at the age of 17. He then became a self-employed farmer and later served in the Union Army during the Civil War. He was introduced to gambling during his time in the Army which he says was a common pastime among soldiers and officers. After the war, Long became a businessman and operated his own general store selling groceries and provisions in Fort Wayne, Indiana. However, Long's participation in various forms of gambling eventually turned into a gambling addiction. He also developed a drinking addiction after seeking help for an unknown ailment affecting his heart from a doctor who ended up prescribing him whiskey as "medicine." Long then describes how his grocery business financially fell under and that he began to operate a "variety theater" which he said was his biggest regret in his life because he felt these types of theaters and "concert halls" attracted the worst types of people and were rife with iniquity. Long then describes committing his life to drinking and gambling. He became an owner of a saloon and gambling room and made significant profits but subsequently squandered his earnings on gambling and alcohol. Due to excessive drinking, Long said that he experienced tremors and episodes of persistent hallucinations, two of which were of white mice crawling all over him and a renegade stampede of bulls in relentless pursuit after him. Curiosity prompted Long to attend a temperance meeting in Fort Wayne, and after much introspection, he eventually signed a temperance pledge (Francis Murphy pledge card). Thereafter, Long made efforts to improve his life, become temperate, and cut ties with the gambling business. He also converted to Christianity and became involved in the temperance movement. Long also provides a chapter warning younger men to not give into the temptation of gambling and relays many anecdotes of gamblers were died early and penniless; he says that gambling may appear promising at first but only leads to financial and personal ruin.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. The life of Mason Long, the Converted Gambler | Mason Long | Taschenbuch | 256 S. | Englisch | 2017 | hansebooks | EAN 9783744715836 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Hansebooks GmbH, Trakehner Weg 52, 22844 Norderstedt, gb[at]hansebooks[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.

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Condición: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 256 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | The Life of Mason Long - the converted gambler is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1878.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Condición: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 284 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | The Life of Mason Long - The converted gambler. Fifth Edition is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1888.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.