12mo (189 x 113 mm). Lithographed portrait frontispiece, 6 engraved plates. (Some toning and staining, frontispiece with marginal surface bubbling, one or two minor marginal tears.) Original tan cloth decorated in blind, spine gilt-lettered (wear to spine and extremities, some staining, front hinge tender). Provenance: sold unidentified "Bookseller" (faint stamp to front pastedown); Dudley Bell Priester (1923-2017), Mississippi River collector and bibliographer (sold Bloomsbury, 20 November 2009, lot 81).

Second edition, preceded by the first edition of 1844. "A reformed gambler's adventures among brother card-sharps, counterfeiters, etc., along the lower Mississippi, from Kentucky to Louisiana" (Howes). Graff 1638; Howes G-365; Sabin 28535.