Search Results: Games, Cards, Gambling from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

Reno, Nevada: Nevada Press, 1958. First edition. Oblong sextodecimo (4.5" x 6.75"), 13 unnumbered pages plus covers, illustrated throughout from photographs, diagrams of gaming tables & comedic art work. Publisher's pictorial, stapled paper wraps.
A Fine copy.
A wonderful promotional pamphlet which provides a description of amenities as well as instructions & odds for favorite games. Harolds Club was established in 1935 & closed in 1995. The building was demolished in 1999.

[Las Vegas, Nevada]: Silver State Publishing Company, copyright 1949. Sextodecimo (6.75" x 4.5"), 14 unnumbered pages plus covers, illustrated throughout from photographs, diagrams of gaming tables & comedic art work. Publisher's pictorial, stapled paper wraps.
A Fine copy.
A wonderful promotional pamphlet which provides guidance, instructions, & odds for favorite games including Blackjack, Roulette, Craps, Wheel of Fortune, Keno, Poker, & Slot Machines. The Golden Nugget was originally built in 1946 & is one of the oldest casinos in Las Vegas.

Reno, Nevada: Nevada Press, copyright 1960 but this issued in 1963. Oblong sextodecimo (4.5" x 6.75"), 18 unnumbered pages plus covers, illustrated throughout from photographs, diagrams of gaming tables & comedic art work. Publisher's pictorial, stapled paper wraps.
A Fine copy.
A wonderful promotional pamphlet which provides a brief history of the casino as well as instructions & odds for favorite games. Harolds Club was established in 1935 & closed in 1995. The building was demolished in 1999.

London: Secker & Warburg, (1973). First British edition of the Seidensticker translation. Octavo (8.75" x 6"), viii & 188 pages. Publisher's light blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket.
One corner lightly bruised, previous owner's bookplate at the ffep, otherwise near fine in very good or better dust jacket with brief edge wear including a short closed tear.
Kawabata was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968 "for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind."

London: Sands & Co, 1901. 24mo, 104 pp, occasional illustrations. Publishers green cloth lettered & decorated in gilt & red. Binding worn: rubbed, scuffed, & spotted, brief fraying at spine extremities & corners, front hinge & page 81 cracked, sporadic foxing, otherwise good or so. A title in the Burleigh Pocket Series by the author of over 50 books on card games, dice, chess, & dominoes.