sperienza (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. THE BOARDS ARE HEAVILY RUBBED AND YELLOWED. THERE ARE STAINS TO BOTH SIDES. THE CORNERS ARE LIGHTLY SCUFFED. THE SPINE IS HEAVILY YELLOWED AND STAINED. THERE IS HEAVY FOXING TO THE PAGE EDGES. THERE IS A SMALL STICKER TO THE FFEP. THERE IS HEAVY FOXING TO SOME PAGES. THE BINDING IS TIGHT. PAGES GENERALLY APPEAR CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Of the many hundreds of different roulette systems, this volume focuses on some of the simplest and easiest, omitting those more risky methods. Foxing to edges and spine. Covers slightly soiled. Foxing to endpapers and a few interior pages.

HARD COVER WHITE. Condizione: FAIR. General shelf wear, faded cover, foxing, inscriptions throughout, bookplate on front inner cover, diagrams throughout DATE PUBLISHED: 1920 CIRCA EDITION: 230.

London: Harrison and Sons. [1905]. 8vo. Original cloth, printed in red and black; pp. 230, [2], frontispiece in red and black, one plate in red and black, typographical tables in the text; spine darlened and cloth a little rubbed and marked, light offsetting from endpapers and frontispiece; otherwise very good.Uncommon first edition of this 'infallable' system of winning at the roulette tables of France, mainly in Monte Carlo, which the author prefers compared with how roulette is set up in Nice. 'Mathematicians may rack their brains to upset this [Sperianza's] system, but I defy them to do so' (p. 83).WorldCat locates copies in the BL, at Trinity, Dublin, Cambridge, Oxford, in the National Library of Scotland, in Reno and Las Vegas; LibraryHub adds one futher copy, with the National Trust.