First Edition The Wizard of Monte Carlo in Dust Jacket
[GAMBLING]. CORTI, Count. The Wizard of Monte Carlo. E.P. Dutton, NY, 1935.
First American edition, first printing. Hardcover. Thick octavo, 288 pp. (including index). With black and white illustrations throughout.
Original orange cloth, lettered in blue on front cover and spine. Publisher's original dust jacket, not price-clipped. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Jacket with some edge wear and tape to verso. Overall, a very good copy. Now preserved in a custom archival mylar.
The exploits of Francois Blanc (1806-1877), gambler and casino operator. An exceptional story, the birth of the gambling industry, the life of Fransois Blanc and the centres of Hamburg and Monaco and Monte Carlo.
