The Drama in Pokerville: The Bench and Bar of Jurytown, and Other...
Everpoint; Field, J.M.; Darley, F.O.C. The Drama in Pokerville: The Bench and Bar of Jurytown, and Other Stories. With eight illustrations, from original designs, engraved expressly for this work, by F.O.C. Darley. Philadelphia, Carey and Hart, 1847. [2] leaves, 3-200 pp., plates. Green cloth with gilt stamped spine. Boards soiled, foot of spine chipped. Boards blindstamped. Ex-library, with location label to foot of spine, bookplate of Mercantile Library, Philadelphia to front pastedown, library stamps to title and text, date due slip to rear free endpaper. Good. $125. * Contents: The drama in Pokerville; The bench and bar of Jurytown; A sucker in a warm bath; An "awful place"; The Elk runners; "Old Sol" in a delicate situation; The "gagging scheme;" or, West's great picture; Establishing the science; Old bull in the "solitude"; How our frined B-'s hair went; A fancy barkeeper; "Mr. Nobble!"; "Honey run"; A "hung" jury; Paternal gushings; A werry grave exhortation; "Your turn next, sir"; Stopping to "wood"; Death of Mike Fink; Establishing a connection; A night in a swamp; Steamboat miseries; A resurrectionist and his freight.
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Book number 83732