The Game of Euchre by Keller John W (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1889 Hardcover Good/No Dust Jacket The Game of Euchre by John W Keller, published in 1889 Including treatises on French Euchre, Set-Back Eucre, etc and Progressive Euchre Hardcover with decorative paper covered boards with heavy shelfwear Spine reinforced with old paper and occasional foxing.

Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus. No Jacket. Uncredited Cover (illustrator). First ( No Additional printings). Original off-white illustrated paper boards backed in green cloth. Minor corner wear. No writing. 82 pp. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Book.

1st edition. Yellowback. Small 12mo. (2) + 82pp. Publisher's colour pictorial paper covered boards, pale blue cloth spine, 5 playing cards including Joker + gilt lettering + red lettering within scroll over cream area with double brown line around edges all over green area on front. Original white eps. Withdrawn library label + bar code stuck down inside front cover, very small neat library reference code written on bottom edge of title page, Discarded stamp. NO LIBRARY MARKS ON COVERS ON IN TEXT OR AT REAR. Covers : rubs top/bottom of spine + corners. Contents : slight browning mark to fep, faint browning to pages else very clean & tight & unfoxed. VG-.

HARD BACK BEIGE/BLUE. Condition: GOOD. Euchre was the precurser to the game of Poker & 5 Card Stud. General shelf wear, rubbed cover, worn extremities, foxing on endpages, rubbed/soiled cover, tanned cover, top corner has some of the book pastedown was removed, faded spine. An extremely rare early treatise on the new game of Draw Poker. After Schenck, who published his 17 page pamphlet in 1880, this is probably the first complete presentation of the new game of poker to ever have been published in the U.S DATE PUBLISHED: 1889 EDITION: 82.