Source Books
Scarne on Card Tricks.
London: Constable. 1953. [Sleight of hand, cheating, gambling] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), Pp. x; 138. Publisher's red cloth lettered in silver to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 8s. 6d. to front flap. Edges toned, jacket with some edge wear, rubbed to spine. Very good. The..... More
Scarne on Cards Tricks.
New York: Crown Publishers 1959. [Sleight of hand, cheating, gambling] Fourth printing. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.308. Publisher's red cloth in pictorial jacket. Owner label to rear pastedown. Worn wrapper with a some chips and tears, loss to rear corner, taped to rear, spine sunned. The follow-up to Scarne on..... More
Scarne on Cards Tricks.
New York: Crown Publishers, 1950. [Sleight of hand, cheating, gambling] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, fourth printing. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.308. Publisher's red cloth in pictorial jacket. With author's signed presentation to free endpaper; Best Wishes / John Scarne / 10/18/50. A fine copy of the book; jacket sunned to spine..... More
Scarne on Cards.
New York: Crown Publishers, 1949. [Sleight of hand, cheating, gambling] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.x; 406. With frontisportrait and 75 illustrations. Publisher's red cloth in pictorial jacket. With author's signed presentation to free endpaper; To my pal / Donald Borg / the old slicker / and confidence..... More
Popski. A Life of Lt.Col Vladimir Peniakoff.
London: McGibbon & Kee, 1954. [Military History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.240. With photographic illustrations. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, typographic dust-jacket priced at 18s. Some light toning/spotting, jacket with one small chip to crown. Very good indeed. A scarce biography of Lieutenant-Colonel Vladimir "Popski"..... More