Search Results: Gambling and Gaming from Mary Riversong Books

Mystery Anthology. 12 stories featuring Poirot, Japp, and Hastings. Dell Publishing, NY. New Dell Edition, First Printing Thus, September, 1978. USED. VG Condition.

Cards on the Table (Agatha Christie Mystery Collection) Black faux leather binding. First Edition Thus, Bantam Books Inc., NY, November, 1984. Number line: 098765432. USED. Very Good Condition/ No DJ as issued. 197 pages. 5 5/8 X 8 ¾. Summary: "Cards on the Table is a classic murder mystery novel by Agatha Christie. When a bridge game turns deadly, renowned Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is called in to solve the case.

Devol, George H. Forty Years A Gambler On The Mississippi. 1926 Henry Holt First Edition. Used. Good Condition/ No DJ is included. 5 1/4 X 7 5/8 288 Pages. Red boards with playing card emblem at center front. Spine states "Of The Mississippi" in error. Summary: In his "Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi" Devol recounts dozens of anecdotes of how he plied his Three-Card Monte and sharp dealing skills to cheat the cheaters and/or suckers on steamboats and in river towns over more than four decades in the mid-nineteenth century American South" Please see our stock photos.

McTeague by Frank Norris. Copyright 1899 by Doubleday, Page and Co. First Boni & Liveright Modern Library Edition Thus. IDate unstated. Used. Good Condition. Introduction by Henry S. Pancost. A nice copy bound in brown, flexible faux leather. Brown endpapers. Hinges split. Summary: "McTeague is a novel by Frank Norris, first published in 1899. It tells the story of a couple's courtship and marriage, and their subsequent descent into poverty and violence as the result of jealousy and greed. The book was the basis for the films McTeague (1916) and Erich von Stroheim's Greed (1924)."

Postern of Fate (Tommy & Tuppence) FIRST TIME IN PAPERBACK. 3RD PRINTING THUS. October 1974. Bantam Publishing, NY. ISBN 55308444 274 pages. 4 ¼ X 7. Used. VG condition.