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[Temperance] Group of 12 books on compulsive gambling, psychology of gambling, and temperance. Including Knots Untied (1871) by George McWatters, The Social Evil in Chicago (1911) by the Vice Commission of Chicago, Fighting the Underworld (1936) by Philip Van Cise, You Can’t Win (1949) by Ernast Blanche, Gamblers’ Money (1965) by Wallace Turner, The Omnibus of Crime (1929; ed. Dorothy Sayers), with modern studies on the psychology and risk of gambling by various authors and publishers. Sizes and bindings vary. Condition generally good.


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2014-05-31

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