GAMBLING AND GAMBLING DEVICES BEING A COMPLETE SYSTEMATIC EDUCATIONAL EXPOSITION DESIGNED TO INSTRUCT THE YOUTH OF THE WORLD TO AVOID ALL FORMS OF GAMBLING
Quinn, John Philip
Published by Canton, Oh, 1912
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[6],306,[2]pp., including illustrations. Portrait. Gilt pictorial cloth. Spine sunned, some fraying at extremities. Dampstain in lower inner corner of front board extending to margin of couple of pages of text, else quite clean internally. Small ownership stamp on rear pastedown. Very good overall. A classic work on the topic. The author states of gambling: "its fascination is insidious and terrible, and its power is all the more to be dreaded in that it appeals to a latent instinct in nearly every human breast." In this volume he attempts to educate the gullible as to the tools of the trade and the scams to avoid, though at the same time he also educates those who might wish to take advantage of others. Chapters include "Social Card Playing: The Kindergarten to the Gambling Hell," "The Race Track: A National Vice" and "New York: Paradise of Gamblers," among many others. The illustrations are marvelous, and including a wide variety of gaming tools and machines, cautionary parables, and a bumbling police officer called "McWeeny.". Seller Inventory # WRCAM14724
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Title: GAMBLING AND GAMBLING DEVICES BEING A ...
Publisher: Canton, Oh
Publication Date: 1912
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Gambling and Gambling Devices: Being a Complete Systematic Educational Exposition Designed to Instruct the Youth of the World to Avoid All Forms of Gambling
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Wraps. Condition: Good+. Black and White Illustrations By Arthur Meyers and Paul Busch (illustrator). Reprint. Published circa 1965; Textblock very clean and tight. Covers lightly edge and corner worn and scuffed. Rear cover lightly dog eared. 306p. Size: 8vo - 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall. Paperback. Seller Inventory # EW5741
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Gambling And Gambling Devices: Being a Complete Systematic Educational Exposition Designed to Instruct the Youth of the World to Avoid all Forms of Gambling
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint of 1912 edition. Circa 1965. Green gold lettered pictorial covers. Illustrated. Seller Inventory # 022798
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Gambling and gambling devices; being a complete systematic educational exposition designed to instruct the youth of the world to avoid all forms of gambling. By John Philip Quinn. 1912 [Leather Bound]
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Seller: S N Books World, Delhi, India
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LeatherBound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 330. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1912 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 330. Seller Inventory # LB100156555761
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GAMBLING AND GAMBLING DEVICES: BEING A COMPLETE SYSTEMATIC EDUCATIONAL EXPOSITION DESIGNED TO INSTRUCT THE YOUTH OF THE WORLD TO AVOID ALL FORMS OF GAMBLING, 1912.
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J. P. Quinn Co.,, Canton,, 1912
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Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp ii, 306. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered gilt on spine and on front cover. Bookplate on the front endpaper of one, Edward Jacobs. Copiously illustrated in black and white throughout. Some dulling to gilt lettering at spine and slight fraying at spine ends, somewhat cracked at the front internal hinge but holding well, overall a used, very good minus copy with clean text and plates. Seller Inventory # C62953
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Gambling and Gambling Devices; Being a Complete Systematic Educational Exposition Designed to Instruct the Youth of the World to Avoid All Forms of Gambling
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J.P. Quinn Co, Canton, Ohio, 1912
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Seller: B Street Books, ABAA and ILAB, San Mateo, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 'For a quarter of a century the author witnessed and practiced every variety of gambling known to the profession. The next quarter of a century he has devoted to exposing the frauds of the gambler. Starting out in the lecture field, he realized his efforts would be futile unless he could show the public in a practical form the evil attached to gambling, to accomplish which he took machinery captured from the gamblers and thereby succeeded in saving thousands of young men from gambling.' With a variety of wonderful illustrations, including technical diagrams of gambling machines, melodramatic tableaux, and humorous cartoons depicting the incompetent police officer 'McWeeny'. Green covers with gilt images of horse, dice, cards, champagne, etc., unlikely to convince youth to avoid the advertised dangers. Sunning to spine, bumping and minor fraying of corners and top and tail of spine. Endpapers, fly-leaf, frontispiece portrait of the author, title page, copyright, dedication, preface i-ii, table of contents, 1-306, 2 pages of press-clippings noting the effectiveness of Quinn's lectures on the dangers of gambling and an announcement from Quinn that lectures and films on the subject are available for purchase. 16 x 23 cm. Seller Inventory # 2022-M302
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GAMBLING AND GAMBLING DEVICES Being a complete systematic educational exposition designed to instruct the youth of the world to avoid all forms of gambling.
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J. P. Quinn, Canton, Ohio, 1912
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Seller: Andrew Cahan: Bookseller, Ltd., ABAA, Akron, OH, U.S.A.
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First edition. 8vo., [vi], 306, [2] pp., b&w illustrations from drawings and photographs. Publisher's green cloth, decorated in gilt on the front cover. Light mottling to the cloth; a near fine copy. Seller Inventory # 54251
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GAMBLING AND GAMBLING DEVICES BEING A COMPLETE SYSTEMATIC EDUCATIONAL EXPOSITION DESIGNED TO INSTRUCT THE YOUTH OF THE WORLD TO AVOID ALL FORMS OF GAMBLING.
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Canton, Oh. [1912]., 1912
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Seller: William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
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A classic work on the topic. The author states of gambling: "its fascination is insidious and terrible, and its power is all the more to be dreaded in that it appeals to a latent instinct in nearly every human breast." In this volume he attempts to educate the gullible as to the tools of the trade and the scams to avoid, though at the same time he also educates those who might wish to take advantage of others. Chapters include "Social Card Playing: The Kindergarten to the Gambling Hell," "The Race Track: A National Vice" and "New York: Paradise of Gamblers," among many others. The illustrations are marvelous, and including a wide variety of gaming tools and machines, cautionary parables, and a bumbling police officer called "McWeeny." [6],306,[2]pp., including illustrations. Portrait. Gilt pictorial cloth. Spine sunned, some fraying at extremities. Dampstain in lower inner corner of front board extending to margin of couple of pages of text, else quite clean internally. Small ownership stamp on rear pastedown. Very good overall. Seller Inventory # 14724
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