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Two related volumes of racist gambling caricature:

• [Alfred  Trumble?] The Thompson Street Poker Club / from “Life” (White & Allen, c.1888) Pictorial boards, disbound, lacking cloth spine 6 x 9 “, 48pp.possibly lacking the rear fly leaf; illustrated by E.W. Kemble
•  [Alfred Trumble?] The Mott Street Poker Club / The Secretary’s Minutes (NY & London: White & Allen, 1889) Original cloth spine and decorative boards. 6 x 9”, 50pp. Illustrated by M. Woolf

Issued as complementary volumes, both written in typical racist dialect, one  African-American (“Looker hyar, Gus, whuffer yo’rise dat pot!”) the other in Chinese-American Pidgin English (“What you callee him…Makee allee same Melican man.”).  The first apparently first appeared in ‘Life’, the 19^th century humor magazine.