$60
Webster, Harold Tucker, et al. Webster’s Poker Book. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1925. Blue cloth stamped in red, with compartment containing poker chips and illustrated IOU slips incorporated at rear of binding, as issued. Illustrated “with fifty portraits by Webster.” Tall 8vo. Dampstaining; several chips and IOUs lacking; contents sound. Inscribed and initialed by co-author Marc Connelly, who notes, “Advance copy, first edition” on dedication page. Full of Webster’s charming and Twain-esque cartoons, all with a poker theme, the drawings are complemented by text by Poker authority R.F. Foster, “side line suggestions and interpolations” by Connelly, and an foreword by George Ade.
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2013-05-18
