Playing the Field: Autobiography of an All American Racketeer

Sacramento: News Publishing Company, 1948.

Price: $150.00

Hardcover. Second edition. 8vo. 168pp. Brown leather-grained cloth gilt; Light edgewear on the boards, very near fine, assume issued without dustwrapper. Inscribed by Spike on the half-title: "To Foz[?] Baker, Sincerely yours, Diamond Spike." Poetry of the criminal underworld, includes a relatively extensive glossary of jargon and slang.

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Item #413685 Playing the Field: Autobiography of an All American Racketeer. Diamond SPIKE, Robert Ernest Shelley.
Playing the Field: Autobiography of an All American Racketeer