Lot of Over 60 Contemporary Playing Card Catalogues, Monographs, and Periodicals. Including catalogs by Stanley Gibbons Collectors Auctions (June & September, 1980), Milolon Cartes a jouer et Tarots (November 2011), Skinner Fine Books & Manuscripts (October 2005), Early American History Auctions (May 1995 – June 2003), numerous issues of The Playing Card (August 1986 – March 2016; the official journal of the International Playing Card Society), an edition of the Chicago Playing Card Collectors, Inc. (Vol. XXXIII, Issue 2, Summer 1986), and several original bonds from La Turnhoutoise Societe Anonyme a Turnhout (1944), manually signed and including original coupons and Bylaws of the Belgian Corporation. Sizes and bindings vary. Condition overall very good. The bonds originate from Turnhout, the home of Belgium’s national playing card museum, Nationaal Museum van de Speelkart. From the 1800s through the 1960s, the town was a center for some of the world’s premier playing card designers and producers.