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Published by The Reilly & Britton Co, Chicago, 1907
Seller: B Street Books, ABAA and ILAB, San Mateo, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Playful ode to poker, smoking, and drinking, lavishly illustrated and printed in blue and orange. Includes a tongue-in-cheek history, rules of the game, 'gratuitous advice', 'smoke quotes', recipes (mostly sandwiches), and mixed drinks, all mixed up with aphorisms, puns, and verse. 'Designed by W.M. Rhoads, Fun by Percy Hammond and George C. Wharton, Abetted, In Pictures, by Albert Olson.' Red cloth with large illustrated paper label. Wear and very faint stain to paper label, bumping to the corners. Interior bright. See photos. Unpaginated. 14 x 20 cm.
Published by Reilly & Britton, 1907
Seller: Neverland Books, Waalre, Netherlands
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. "Poker, Smoke and Other Things" by Hammond, Percy and George Wharton. Chicago: Reilly and Britton, 1907. First edition. Publisher s red cloth, color illustrated cover label. Full-page illustrations and ornaments by Albert Olson. Thin 8vo. Cover edges gently rubbed with dampstaining to rear board, label lightly dust soiled with color offsetting and cockling, occasional smudging to margins.