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The Card-Player's Companion: A Description of the U.S. Playing Cards and Games Best Adapted to Our Cabinet , No. 707 –– First Edition. Published in Cincinnati, 1887, by Russell & Morgan Printing Company. 32-page pamphlet, 4.5 x 6 inches (11.5 x 15.25 cm). This is the first edition of the first catalog of Russell and Morgan (later US Playing Card Company), along with rules for pinochle (penuchle), euchre and bezique.This first edition is rather scarce. WorldCat locates UNLV only.Very light cover soil, otherwise very good condition as visible in scans. Boston stationer's rubber stamp inside front and rear covers.

Second published Russian translation of the Innocents at Home portion of Mark Twain's Roughing It, 1911, with the Frank Fraser illustrations from Routledge's UK edition.Octavo, paper boards, 5.5 x 8 inches, 196 pages; moderate external wear, contents in good condition for such cheap paper.Translated by revolutionary critic Mikhail Alexandrovich Engelhardt (1861-1915), translator of Locke, Poe, Dickens, Flaubert, Doyle, Kipling, Forel, Marinetti et al. With introduction by novelist Ieronim Yasinsky (1850-1931), who edited this edition of Twain's collected works for St Petersburg publisher P.P. Soikin.