Playing the Field - Autobiography of an All American Racketeer
by Diamond Spike
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
California: News Publishing Company, 1948. Second edition. Hardcover. Good. Green textured cloth with fading gilt titles, 2nd edition, no jacket. A good copy with some soil, and wear to the cover edges. Corners and spine tips bending inward. Previous owner's gift inscription neatly inside the front cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy in a solid binding. 168 pp., a memoir of the gambling underworld in poetry, followed by an extensive dictionary of jargon.
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- Bookseller
- Tangible Tales (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1727
- Title
- Playing the Field - Autobiography of an All American Racketeer
- Author
- Diamond Spike
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second edition
- Publisher
- News Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- California
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- Poetry American Racketeering Underworld Gaming Autobiography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers;
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