The Odds Against Me: The Autobiography of John Scarne
by Scarne, John
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good /Good
- Seller
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Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York, USA.: Simon and Schuster. Bound in light brown cloth with darker brown textile backstrip, this dated 1966 First Printing, First Edition is VG (Close Fine) in Good plus dustjacket (unclipped). 537pp with 13 Chapters, 31 B/W Photos and Appendix. Lots of text on Magic and Cheating, especially interesting is Chapter 5, "Fooling America's Greatest Magicians", and a letter from Edgar Hoover reproduced in the text, thanking Scarne for a lecture on detecting cheating in gambling given to an FBI conference. Clean endpapers, pink top edge, and generally without fault. Dustjacket is 99.9% complete but with 7 tiny chips along top/bottom edges, mainly at spine. Thus condition VG with Good dustjacket . Very Good. Hardback. First Edition.. 1966.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Camillas Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0021788
- Title
- The Odds Against Me: The Autobiography of John Scarne
- Author
- Scarne, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York, USA.
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- First Printing: The Autobiography of John Scarne
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Camillas Bookshop
Biblio member since 2009
Eastbourne, East Sussex
About Camillas Bookshop
Camilla's Bookshop is a large secondhand and antiquarian bookstore situated in the resort town of Eastbourne.We have more than 500,000 books in all categories. Our specialities include: armed forces, transport, travel, politics, history, literature (several thousand novels including modern firsts), religion, esoteric & occult and art.Shop hours are 10:00 - 17:00, excepting Sundays and Bank Holidays.Unfortunately, we do not ship to Denmark.
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