Isbn: 9780801425011 - card sharps, dream books, and bucket shops: gambling in the 19th-century america: gambling in 19th-century america (12 risultati)

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good+. Very Good (in mylar). First Edition. usual library stamps, stickers and labels, but exceptionally clean and tight with only slight shelf wear; appears to have never been read; 250pp, including index. Ex-Library, Hard Cover.

Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.…

Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. No markings.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. A pristine copy, tight and crisp, with no signs of prior use or wear. The excellent jacket is protected by a mylar Brodart cover against future wear. Fast shipping world wide, with tracking number supplied to all US customers.…

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Crisp, fresh copy with no markings or bookplates, no remainder marks. No jacket chips and no tears. Suitable for gift-giving.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. Pristine Copy. Not Xlib Or Remainder.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. SUBTITLED : ` Gambling in 19'th Century America '. The jacket blurb for this 250 page - INDEX at the back - volume uses the phrasing `` games that entranced players and vexed moralists. Read more about : vernacular divination, Charles Burdett, Committee for Supressing Immorality, boardinghouse keepers, gambling gentry, faro's ruses, Puritan fears, card readers, and Statute of Anne. A small number of b/w plates accompany text. Boards are grey with gilt lettering at spine. End-papers are green like a gambling felt. D.J. is green with black lettering. Cover graphic is a hand manipulating playing cards (to your disadvantage). Volume in all SENSES is clean, square, and bright. No names nor marks. Decidedly giftable copy ! ! QUote (p. 146) : " To trivialize dream books as middle-class popular culture is to ignore the ways middle-class play here is filtered through African-American seers. The presence of these seers, however gestural, is eveidence of ._._._. . " Size: Octavo. B/W Plates (illustratore).…

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