Abstract
John Lester Luckman (1924-1987) was the founder of Gambler’s Book Club, a Las Vegas, Nevada-based publishing house for books about gambling. The collection contains photocopied manuscripts for three books published by the Gambler’s Book Club, written and edited by Ken Uston and Roger Rapoport, John Montgomery, and John K. Hutchens. Copies of all three books are available in UNLV Special Collections stacks.
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John Lester Luckman (1924-1987) was the founder of Gambler’s Book Club, a Las Vegas, Nevada-based publishing house for books about gambling. Together with his wife Edna, he helped many previously unpublished authors get published. He also wrote six books about gambling under the pen name Walter I. Nolan.
The collection contains photocopied manuscripts for three books published by the Gambler’s Book Club, written and edited by Ken Uston and Roger Rapoport, John Montgomery, and John K. Hutchens. Copies of all three books are available in UNLV Special Collections.
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Collection is open for research.
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Materials in this collection may be protected by copyrights and other rights. See Reproductions and Use on the UNLV Special Collections website for more information about reproductions and permissions to publish.
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Material remains in original order.
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John Lester Luckman Gambler's Book Club Collection, 1977-1978. MS-00150. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Acquisition Note
Collection was donated in 1978 by John Luckman; accession number T58.
Processing Note
Collection was processed in 2017 by Joyce Moore. In 2017, as part of an archival backlog elimination project, Chris Bruce revised the collection description to bring it into compliance with current professional standards.