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  title info:
    title: Bluffing Texas style
    sub title: the arsons, forgeries, and high-stakes poker capers of rare book dealer Johnny Jenkins
  title info:
    title: Arsons, forgeries, and high-stakes poker capers of rare book dealer Johnny Jenkins
  name:
    name part: Vinson, Michael
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: Biography
  genre: Biographies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: oku
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  abstract: "In 1989 a woman fishing in Texas on a quiet stretch of the Colorado River snagged a body. Her 'catch' was the corpse of Johnny Jenkins, shot in the head. His death was as dramatic as the rare book dealer's life, which read, as the Austin American-Statesman declared, 'like a bestseller.' In 1975 Jenkins had staged the largest rare book coup of the twentieth century--the purchase, for more than two million dollars, of the legendary Eberstadt inventory of rare Americana, a feat noted in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. His undercover work for the FBI, recovering rare books stolen by mafia figures, had also earned him headlines coast to coast, as had his exploits as 'Austin Squatty, ' playing high stakes poker in Las Vegas. But beneath such public triumphs lay darker secrets. At the time of his death, Jenkins was about to be indicted by the ATF for the arson of his rare books, warehouse, and offices. Another investigation implicated Jenkins in forgeries of historical documents, including the Texas Declaration of Independence. Rumors of million-dollar gambling debts at mob-connected casinos circulated, along with the rumblings of irate mafia figures he'd fingered and eccentric Texas collectors he'd cheated. Had he been murdered? Or was his death a suicide, staged to look like a murder? How Jenkins, a onetime president of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, came to such an unseemly end is one of the mysteries Michael Vinson pursues in this spirited account of a tragic American life. Entrepreneur, con man, connoisseur, forger, and self-made hero, Jenkins was a Texan who knew how to bluff but not when to fold."--
  table of contents: The Cushing Library Lit/Mitchell copy is a donation from J. Lawrence Mitchell.
  note: Michael Vinson.
  note: Accession #: 2020_0001
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  note: Copy 1. Binding: Includes original dust-jacket. ICU
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-tx
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Jenkins, John Holmes
  subject:
    topic: Antiquarian booksellers
    geographic: Texas
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Rare books
    topic: Collectors and collecting
    geographic: Texas
  subject:
    topic: Americana
    topic: Collectors and collecting
  subject:
    topic: Book thefts
  subject:
    topic: Livres rares
    topic: Collectionneurs et collections
    geographic: Texas
  subject:
    topic: Americana
    topic: Collectionneurs et collections
  subject:
    topic: Vol de livres
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Jenkins, John Holmes
  subject:
    topic: Rare books
    topic: Collectors and collecting
  subject:
    topic: Book thefts
  subject:
    topic: Americana
    topic: Collectors and collecting
  subject:
    topic: Antiquarian booksellers
  subject:
    geographic: Texas
  classification: Z473.J4 V56 2020
  classification: 381/.45002092 B
  identifier: 9780806164953
  identifier: 0806164956
  identifier: 9780806165424
  identifier: 0806165421
  identifier: 2019030989
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190904
    record change date: 20230227185048.8
    record identifier: in00004648616
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng