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EBay has been a prime landing spot for a number of poker items, as everything from WSOP bracelets to cars owned by poker players have found their way to the popular auction site. And recently another piece of poker history appeared on the online auction site, a rare poker book, first printed in 1978.

I’m sure not too many people are familiar with the poker book, How I made Over $1,000,000 Playing Poker, published in the dark ages of poker (the 1970’s), but most people do know the book but its later title of Super System. The book was first written in 1978 by Doyle Brunson with some help from Bobby Baldwin, Mike Caro, David “Chip” Reese, David Sklansky, and Joey Hawthorne, and with a hefty $100 price-tag, and a very, VERY, niche-market it didn’t fare overly well and limited copies of the first edition were produced.

Rebranded as Super System, the book would eventually be purchased by virtually every aspiring poker player for the better part of three decades, and was long considered as “the Bible” for poker; eventually becoming so popular that Super System II was created to update the classic text, with a new cast of authors joining Brunson in the mammoth undertaking.

Now anyone looking for a piece of poker history can now turn to EBay, as a seller has put up a signed, First-Edition, copy of the book, with its original title, with a buy-it-now price of $1,495 –although the seller is taking offers. The short description on EBay states: “First edition, FIRST PRINTING, SIGNED (w/ a small inscription that reads: Good Luck!) by Doyle Brunson directly on the title page (not inscribed to anyone); hardcover; the signature was obtained ‘in person’ and I will include a GLOSSY PHOTO of the author at the signing event!”