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(GAMBLING.) 'NUMBERS' The Cuban B.O. Dream Book by Prof. Konje * Aunt Sally's Policy Players Dream Book * The Magical, Spiritual Dream Book. . . By Madame Futtam. Three volumes, small 8vo, all in their original covers, the first title lacking the rear cover; the last title with old cello-tape at the spine; overall, in very good condition given that these volumes were printed on cheap pulp paper, and were never intended to last very long. [New York, 1935-1940's
Three 'Dream-Books,' were very popular in the black community for generations, they were guides to help one guess the winning 'number' in the vast illegal lottery called the 'policy racket,' 'Italian lottery,' and 'nr pool.' These books would interpret your dreams in terms of numbers: A dream of a cat might mean the number 13, and so on. Two of these books are quite scarce. That of Mme Futtam, a fortune teller and candle shop owner, is not located by OCLC. The author of the Cuban B.O. book, Professor Uriah Konje (pseudo. Of Herbert Gladstone Parris) wrote a number of these books, from the 1920's through the 1940's (the present one not located).
