The Gambler's Dream. 2nd edn. 3 vols.

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Staining to top margins of first 140pp, vol. I with sl. staining to upper margins vol. II. Orig. drab boards, green cloth spines, paper labels; sl. rubbed. A good-plus copy as issued. Booklabels of Museum Bollandianum on leading pastedowns; earlier pencil attribution to John Galt. The first edition, also 1837, is recorded at BL, Oxford, Cambridge, and NLS, but there are no copies of this second edition, which has a 4pp preface, dated April 15th, Long's Hotel. 'Who ever heard of a runaway negro making his escape from the island of Jamaica, headed up in a cask of tallow on board a King's ship? The escape of the negro George, related in the Influence of Obi, was communicated to me, verbatim, by the late (Admiral) Lord Keith. The circumstance took place on board his own ship.' A 'Night's Entertainment', following a losing session of Hazard at Crockford's and the subsequent dream in which there is a re-telling of tales by a disparate group gathered in the wine cellars at the club. Attribution to John Galt, 1779-1839, Scottish novelist, can be traced back to the National Union Catalogue and a manuscript note in a copy at Guelph. The Museum Bollandianum was founded by Rosweyde Bolland in Antwerp but largely dispersed after the suppression of the Society of Jesus. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 98774

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