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A History of Playing Cards and a Bibliography of Cards and Gaming
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Author/Editor: Catherine Perry Hargrave
ISBN 10:0486412369
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Intricate, absorbing study based on research and card collections from around the world tells the story of playing cards and their manufacture, plus provides a fascinating overview of heraldry, geography, history, and the social and political activities of man over the past six centuries. Includes an...  read more
 


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Intricate, absorbing study based on research and card collections from around the world tells the story of playing cards and their manufacture, plus provides a fascinating overview of heraldry, geography, history, and the social and political activities of man over the past six centuries. Includes an enormous annotated bibliography of more than 900 items on playing cards and games, and over 1,400 illustrations. Praised by The New York Times as "the most authoritative and complete treatment of its kind."
Reprint of the Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1930 edition.
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ISBN 10: 0486412369
ISBN 13: 9780486412368
Author/Editor: Catherine Perry Hargrave
Format: Book
Page Count: 512
Dimensions: 6 1/2 x 9 1/4
Publication date: June 2012

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