[Item #26688] The Gambler. Aylwin L. MARTIN.

The Gambler

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, [1929]. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); original cloth in purple pictorial dust jacket; [6],350pp. Jacket extremities rubbed with a few short closed tears and chipping at corners, minor dust-soiling to rear panel; top textblock edge more heavily dustsoiled, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket.

Scarce historical novel, an interracial love story set in the gambling halls of antebellum New Orleans. The protagonist, a riverboat gambler, wins a plantation and two slaves, a mother and her octoroon daughter with whom their new owner falls in love. 8 copies located in OCLC as of June, 2015. See James A. Kaser, The New Orleans of Fiction, 318.

Price: $250.00

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