An Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling

A reformed gambler lays bare the card cheating of 19th-century America: stacked decks, marked cards and the methods of the professional sharper. A companion to Sharps and Flats for anyone who studies gambling sleights. This scan is the Philadelphia edition of 1847.

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This classic is in the public domain. Scans come from library copies, so expect the odd stain or stamp of an old book.