The Four-Legged Lottery by Frank Hardy

The Four-Legged Lottery

by Frank Hardy

Rigby, 1976, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, previous owners inscription on front end paper, dustjacket shows some edge and shelf wear with some rubbing, bumping, and age toning  to edges and corners (see photographs)

“In this book Frank Hardy takes the reader into the seedy, greedy world of the racetrack.  Jim Roberts, a working class youth caught up in the Depression, bored and short of money, turns to gambling.  Starting with newspaper tipping contests and small-time investments with the local S.P. bikie, he is seized by the gambling fever.  In the grip of his craze to gamble, his youthful values are destroyed, and his obsession takes hold of him completely.  In The Four-Legged Lottery emerges Hardy’s deep understanding of the Australian working class, together with his brilliant insight into the people who made up the Australian gambling scene.”