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Play, sucker and pray : an expose of confidence rackets, gambling percentages against the player and various devices whereby the general public is made the victim of a class of human parasites who live by their wits and capitalize upon the frailties of human nature

Title: Play, sucker and pray : an expose of confidence rackets, gambling percentages against the player and various devices whereby the general public is made the victim of a class of human parasites who live by their wits and capitalize upon the frailties of human nature / by Paxton H. Dent ; illustrated by Jay Tipton.
Author: Dent, Paxton H.
Publication: El Paso, Tex : Press of Carl Hertzog, 1939.

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93 p. : ill.; 20 cm.

Subject

Note

"Glossary of slang terms used by racketeers": p. 6-13.

Binding (note)

Issued in illustrated paper covers.

Call Number

*KP (Hertzog) 08-312

OCLC

2680209

Author

Dent, Paxton H.

Title

Play, sucker and pray : an expose of confidence rackets, gambling percentages against the player and various devices whereby the general public is made the victim of a class of human parasites who live by their wits and capitalize upon the frailties of human nature / by Paxton H. Dent ; illustrated by Jay Tipton.

Imprint

El Paso, Tex : Press of Carl Hertzog, 1939.

Binding

Issued in illustrated paper covers.

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Tipton, Jay. Illustrator

Hertzog, Carl. Printer

Press of Carl Hertzog. Printer

Research Call Number

*KP (Hertzog) 08-312

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