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Group of Eleven Books on Playing Card History.

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Group of Eleven Books on Playing Card History.

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Group of Eleven Books on Playing Card History. Including Facts and Speculations On Playing Cards (1848; separated spine, faded cover) by William Andrew Chatto, Prophetical Educational and Playing Cards (1912) by Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer, Old Playing-Cards From The Fifteenth To The Nineteenth Century (1940; “with 80 coloured facsimiles”) by Eugene Kolb, Old and Curious Playing Cards (ca. 1900s; replaced endpapers) by H. T. Morley, The Playing Card: An Illustrated History (1972; inscribed by author) by Detlef Hoffmann, Playing Cards, Fournier Museum (1982, 2 vols. in leather slipcase) by Felix Alfaro Fournier, and two copies of the exhibition catalog for The Cardboard Court (1960, Peabody Institute of Baltimore), among others. Condition overall good.

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Group of Eleven Books on Playing Card History.

Name: Group of Eleven Books on Playing Card History.
SKU: 52307192
Price: 100 USD
Availability: InStock

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