Very good in near fine dust jacket. SIGNED by author on title page (signature only). 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Dust jacket is fine except for faint edgewear. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 300 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white, Line drawings, black & white, Diagrams. Audience: General/trade. Book would be fine except that the first free endpaper has been removed. A true-crime book by the author of 'Their Life's Work: The Brotherhood of the 1970s Pittsburgh Steelers' and 'Nine Minutes, Twenty Seconds: The Tragedy & Triumph of ASA Flight 529'. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.

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Title: The Devil's Tickets: A Night of Bridge, a Fatal Hand, and a New American Age [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY), New York, NY
Publication Date: 2009
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1400051622
ISBN 13: 9781400051625
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Printing: 1st Printing
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Tells the true story of Myrtle Bennett who murdered her philandering husband over a game of bridge in 1929, and the dramatic courtroom trial that made Ely Culbertson, who provided color commentary of the proceedings, a card game celebrity.

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GARY M. POMERANTZ is an author and journalist and serves as a visiting lecturer in the Department of Communication at Stanford University. His first book, Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn, was named a 1996 Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times. He also earned acclaim for Nine Minutes, Twenty Seconds and Wilt, 1962. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Pomerantz lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and their three children.

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