A History of Playing Cards and a Bibliography of Cards and Gaming
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Text: English (translation) Original Language: French |
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Frédérique Crestin-Billet is the editor of the Flammarion Collectibles series and also wrote Collectible Corkscrews. |
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Playing cards have always looked like a fun item to collect. You will find mare than 1,600 packs of cards listed and several hundred sets pictured in color in this new book. Playing cards come in many different themes such as Disney and Harley-Davidson.
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Play Your Cards! is a beautiful, full-color book created expressly for a special exhibit of the Bruce Museum of Greenwich , Connecticut, featuring the Stuart and Marilyn R. Kaplan Collection of antique playing cards, card games, and card boxes. Play Your Cards! features a wonderful selection of rare playing cards, games, and game boxes from the collection displayed in 64 full-color plates of card games dating from the Civil War to the present; Native American playing card decks painted on rawhide; the first card deck to feature a joker; examples of one of the earliest known baseball card series with playing cards (1888); Victorian Game Compendium, sterling silver card holders, and Napoleonic bone boxes made by French prisoners of war between 1790-1814. Also included are Civil War cards, hand colored tarock decks, Minchiate cards, transformation decks, and many unusual, early playing cards. -- Midwest Book Review
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Harry Wastrack is a life-long card player and an avid collector of old and unusual decks of playing cards. Retired from a career in the Federal Government, he now spends much of his time writing and organizing card tournaments. He is a regular contributor to Clear the Decks, the quarterly official newsletter of 52 Plus Joker, the American Antique Deck Collectors Club. Mr. Wastrack is also the author of The Essential Hand & Foot about a highly addictive new version of Canasta called, surprisingly enough, Hand & Foot. |
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Mark Lee Rotenberg, the curator of the Rotenberg Collection, has been searching the planet for vintage erotica for more than 25 years. His archive presently includes more than 200,000 works, including vintage erotic photographs in every genre and format, reels of film, Tijuana Bibles, playing cards, books, magazines, and much more. The Rotenberg Collection has also been the basis for several books, including I Was a 1950s Pin-Up Model! (1995), The Rotenberg Collection: Cheesecake! (1999), The Rotenberg Collection: Forbidden Erotica (2000), and 1000 Forbidden Pictures (2002). Readers can visit the Rotenberg Collection online at www.vintagenudephotos.com. |
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