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Ptak Science Books Quick Post
I found a wonderful bit from 1930, a less-than-pocket-sized book on winning and losing in poker1–it has a fair amount of what might be either good or bad information, but mostly what it has of interest are 21 portraits of mostly Texas poker players from the late 1920’s. I have no idea if these are real people, or not–but they come from real towns (Like Spur, Lufkin, and Birdville), and the one-line descriptions of them are wonderful and semi-priceless. The portraits both have and lack a certain something–and at the very least everyone is pictured in a hat.
And yes our Texas poker aces are featured in a design highlighted with swastikas–but this is before the world outside of Germany in 1930 knew what the NSDAP was doing with this ancient symbol.
A full list of the portrait entries may be found below.
Also, if you wanted to own the original it is available from our blog bookstore.