Poker: Its Laws and Principles With a Full Exposition of Mathematical Odds [SCARCE]

16mo (15.5cm). Publisher's original red cloth, black lettered title to cover. Editor's note by R. F. Foster. xii, 92. With a couple of marks to front cover, wear to top and tail of spine. Otherwise, a clean, sound copy, free of foxing, slight give to binding but still firm. Some three auction records, including the gambling memorabilia collection of Bob Rosenberger, Potter & Potter, May, 2018, the copy of which had a gilt stamped title to cover. Of institutional holdings, in the UK, only the copy at Oxford University; WorldCat records four institutional holdings in the US. Sparse information in the public domain on Crofton, who wrote at least two other titles, The Goat's Hoof, and Queen of Nineveh. Uncommon.