Poker rules, toasts, mixed drinks, chafing-dish recipes and a great deal of 1907 clubroom humour, bound together as a gift book.

Something About Its History

2 pieces in this part of Poker, Smoke and Other Things.

Something About Its History

The great game of Draw Poker is as old as the world itself, but it has not always been known by its present name. It has enjoyed many…

Something About Its History: Merry Old England

Then the game leaped the English Channel, something Napoleon often contemplated but never accomplished, and appeared in Merry Old England…

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