[Rarebooks] FS: 1895 American Poker Rhyming Chromo-Illustrated Book

[Joslin Hall Books & Ephemera]

 From our recent catalog “19th Century Americana: An Even Dozen”
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It’s All in the Draw.

Copyright 1895 by C.E.H. Brelsford & C.W. Dimick.
Printed by Forbes Lithograph Mfg. Co., of Boston in 1895.

A rather delightful late Victorian chromolithographed poker book, with  
rhymes for the ascending hands written by C.[harles] E.[dgar]  
H.[ilburn] Brelsford (gambler, hunter, sporting magazine writer), and  
C.[harles] W. Dimick (salesman for U.S. Cartridge Co. and a  
competitive trap shooter), featuring Bicycle Playing Cards.

Each hand is illustrated surrounded by the heads of annoyed, genial or  
incredulous card players (many smoking cigars), and each rhyme is  
playfully interspersed with pictures and ornate lettering of the sort  
that people get up to after an evening at the poker table, with seven  
or 8 scotches in them. It all comes to the ultimate climax with a  
Royal Flush, afte which the back cover features an illustration of the  
tired saloon keeper with a candle in his hand showing a party of weary  
players out the door. All good masculine fun, and presumably we all  
learned something.

Card covers & pages, string bound. 9.25”x5.5”, 10 leaves total,  
including the covers. Front cover with chip on the lower corner, gouge  
on the upper edge. Some soil the covers, and some light scattered soil  
internally.  $250

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