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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1stedn; Early printing. 8vo Red cloth spine over blue illustrated paper-covered boards. PO owner's neat bookplate on the front pastedown. Paper somewhat age-toned. Slight darkening, soiling and chipping\/rubbing to paper covers and edges ow VG\/ndj: 50, [2] pp. frontis and B\/w illustrations throughout.). Wright III, No. 5583. First edition? only 3 copies listed on OCLC as of March 2023. \"The Mott Street Poker Club\" is a fictional account revealing the underground card and gambling scene in New York's Chinatown. Utilizes common anti-Asian stereotypes and sentiments from the time, including frequent use of a phoneticized \"Chinese accent\". The anonymous author, Alfred Trumble (dates unknown, possibly pseudonym?), wrote several books on eclectic subjects ranging from New York's underground card scene to the Crusades (with illustrations by Gustave Dor\u00E9), Dickens' interest in jails, Parisian night life, and \"The Mysteries of Mormonism\". He is an odd and shadowy character begging for further research by scholars." /Association: Thomas Edward McDonald was born in 1879, in Ireland. He had at least 1 son and 2 daughters with Elizabeth Grace Monds. He lived in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States in 1920. He died in 1935, at the age of 56, and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Longmont, Boulder, Colorado, United States.