The Money Spinner: Monte Carlo and Its Fabled Casino by Fielding, Xan - 1977

USA,BOSTON.LITTLE,BROWN & CO,1977.US,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
FINE/NFINE.No inscrptn but price-clipped to dw/dj.Minimal rubbing to dw/dj corners and to head+foot spine/backstrip, else a very nice copy.Brown paper-covered bds,beige eps, illustrated dw/dj - Edwardian scene people inside the casino.8vo, 205pp includes 8pp b/w photographs, biblio and references, index.
Over a century ago the name Monte Carlo glided into the world's imagination with fabulous tales of luck and losses and a jaunty song about the man who broke the bank.Today it still reigns as the original capital of chance.
The Money Spinners chronicles the past and present of Monaco's gleaming resort and its fabled casino.Through extensive research, Xan Fielding recreates the time before 1863 when Monte Carlo - seat of the Prince of Monaco, scion of Europe's oldest ruling family, the Grimaldis - was little
more than a scrubby promontory of the world's smallest independent state, Monaco, no larger than London's Hyde Park, half the size… Read More