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8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece toned in sepia, title in red and black, and 31 plates, some very light and occasional spotting; original red cloth, gilt back, red top, uncut, backstrip lightly frayed at head else a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION
223 pages. "Part history, part memoir, part journalistic expose... Berman takes her memories, her candor and pain and revisits the town where the American dream is chased, found and lost a thousand times a day... Berman's father partnered with Mafia kingpin Bugsy Siegel and built the hotels and casinos that were renowned throughout the world - the Flamingo, the Riviera, and more." - from dust jacket. Illustrated. Clean bright and unmarked with lightest wear. Dust jacket protected in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Beautiful copy. Book
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Very small tear bottom inside front hinge. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. 694 pages of fine print with multiple fold-out charts. Contents include: Essays on the spread of gambling (Gaming and entertanment, Gambling in Europe), Gaming and new jurisdictions (Regulation and economic impact of riverboat casino gambling in Illinois, Charity gaming in Western Canada, Casinos in Margarita Island, Venezuela), Indian gaming (American Indian gaming law, Impact of Native American gaming on rural areas -- Wisconsin, Development of casino industries on American Indian reservations and South African homeland: a comparison) Economic and social impacts of commercial gaming (in several sections) Planning processes and bidding for casino licenses (in several sections), Studies in history and culture of gambling (in several sections), Lotteries (in several sections), Legal and regulatory issues (Under the halo of good causes, Organized crime and casinos: an international phenomenon, When is a pay-off a pay-off?)
Features: rare book reprint - West Wind, the life of Joseph Reddeford Walker, by Percy H. Booth; Men who wore the Oregon Boot (Gardner Shackle) - life in a makeshift territorial prison; Prairie fire - Walt Coburn; A ranch on the Nueces - Jim Ray builds a new home in Texas; the strange story of Quantrill's Surgeon - John W. Benson; Helena's hidden channel of gold; the freighter from Scotland - William Duff Stewart; Fortune's Little Casinos - scattered through Colorado's canyons; 'Tramp' General - Jo Shelby; Ghostly Camp Crittenden; Headhunting was their hobby - savage Haida raiders drew the last blood in their feud with Puget Sound pioneers a century ago... Their grim code demanded a white man's head for every Indian slain; He killed a heap of men - George Marlow; the day the brewery died - Gold Nugget Beer and the Black Hills Brewing Company of Central City, South Dakota; the boy Geronimo missed - clubbed and left for dead, he lived another hundred years!; 'she's taken bad, doc - early medicine in Big Spring, Texas; the twenty mules of Death Valley; Anvils and Coal Smoke - the old time blacksmith; One step at a time - early dreams in Wyoming; Trapped on Vick's Peak; Steamboats 'round the bend - Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; Ira Terrill - lawbreaker, madman or political scapegoat?; Savage days in Springtown, Texas; Black Hills Album. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine