 Author Name: Lyons, Paul (editor)
Title: The Quotable Gambler
Book Condition: New.
ISBN Number: 1558219498 / 9781558219496
Seller ID: 1114W878341
Hardcover. Brand-new 1st edition hardcover with dustjacket 1999 The Lyons Press. Superclean; no marks; pages bright; binding tight; never read. Gift-giving condition. 326pp, Index. Language: English. NOTE: Cannot ship outside U.S. via Global Priority -- Surface or Airmail only. 'From Casablanca to The Hustler, from Moby Dick to How I Made $1,000,000 Playing Poker, The Quotable Gambler covers gaming's universality and history, superstition and luck, players and places, and every game -- from the lowliest backalley crapshoot to the highest-stakes poker contest. The insights of such luminaries as Plato and Mark Twain can be found right alongside the hardscrabble advice offered by the likes of Minnesota Fats, Nick the Greek, and Amarillo Slim -- as well as wisdom, humor, pith, and advice from: Woody Allen, Ingmar Bergman, Fyodor Dostoevsky, George Eliot, Sigmund Freud, David Halbertstam, Stephen Hawking, Ernest Hemingway, Shirley Jackson, James Joyce, Michael Ondaatje, Henry David Thoreau, Oscar Wilde, and many more.This entertaining and enlightening collection of over 700 quotes will appeal to everyone who's ever picked up a cue, cards, or dice, and to anyone who has ever taken a risk.'--from the publisher.
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