This is from a Private Estate in Like New Condition. This is a hardcover book with the original dust jacket. 

First Edition

From his earliest years Eddie Fields met and befriended a most extraordinary group of people: street pitchmen, pool hustlers, gamblers (both crooked and honest), taxi dancers, bar girls, mind readers, witches and psychics. He pitched eucalyptus oil and ran a carnival sideshow. He sold horoscopes in department stores and beat card cheats at their own games. He baffled the country's leading magicians and read the stars for Eleanor Roosevelt. His friends were celebrities and charlatans, renowned magicians and world-class pool players. For over sixty years he researched and studied the most cunning deceptions, adding to them artifices of his own. The life of Eddie Fields is an astonishing chronicle of these secrets and the people who practice them. A LIFE AMONG SECRETS is a window on tehse hidden worlds. It is the fascinating story of a remarkable man and the secrets he discovered over a lifetime.