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I Want To Quit Winners (signed by the author)
by Harold S. Smith with John Wesley Noble
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About This Item
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1962. Later printing. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Hardcover in red and black cloth stamped in silver. SIGNED on the front free endpaper. "I'm with you/ Harold S. Smith Sr.". Fine in bright, crisp dust jacket with shallow wear at the foot of the spine. Harold S. Smith, Sr. (1910-1985) was an early professional gambler and casino owner and operator who established Harold's Club in downtown Reno, Nevada in 1935. In his teens , Smith was an apprentice on the midways during which time he acquired an encyclopedic knowledge of games and the laws of chance. This book is more than an autobiography--it's an amazing account of a gigantic business, afabulos operation in hard cash and human emotions. It its height, Harold's Club employed 1100 people in round-the-clock shifts; it was the set for the 1955 movie "5 Against The House", a predecessor to "Ocean's Eleven
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- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E28573
- Title
- I Want To Quit Winners (signed by the author)
- Author
- Harold S. Smith with John Wesley Noble
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later printing
- Publisher
- Prentice Hall
- Place of Publication
- Englewood Cliffs
- Date Published
- 1962
- Keywords
- gambling,reno, .las vegas, casinos, nevada,
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About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
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