Best Gambling Stories edited by John Welcome

Best Gambling Stories edited by John WelcomeLondon: Faber and Faber, [1961]. SCARCE IN THE UNITED STATES. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. 8vo. Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex libris with dust jacket affixed to paste downs at inside flaps, stamp to top and bottom edges of text block, and number stamp and light pencil to contents page. Light browning and sporadic foxing throughout, though text remains clean and bright aside from a few spots of foxing. Wear to dust jacket includes light edge wear

Light damp stain to front board

Small chip to leather at foot of spine

Near fine in very to dust jacket

Fading to spine and inscription to front paste down

circa 1840s

Blurb about Freeman written in pencil to the top margin of the title page as well as his name written under the title

Beautifully bound in full black leather with gilt title and decoration

foxing to boards

Delivered Before the New-Hampshire Lyceum

Minor wear to exterior includes bumping to corners and spine ends and fraying to head of spine

stamps to end papers

Minor browning and light foxing to first and last few pages