Hargrave, C.P.. A History of Playing Cards and A Bibliography of Cards and Gaming.. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, first edition, 1930, 1930.

Price: US$128.83 + shipping

Description: Cloth, large 4to, xxiv, 468 pp, profusely illustrated with nearly 500 illustrations, including 30 in colour. Approximately 1,000 entries. A very attractive and well-illustrated book, which explores the history, development, use and decoration of playing cards around the world, and includes an extensive (79 page) bibliography. Slight wear to head and tail of spine, and corners, and slight fading of spine and part of rear board. Tissue-guards protecting plates present and uncreased. Good.

Seller: Wykeham Books, LONDON, United Kingdom

Hargrave, C.P.. A History of Playing Cards and A Bibliography of Cards and Gaming.. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, first edition, 1930, 1930.

Price: US$193.24 + shipping

Description: Cloth, large 4to, xxiv, 468 pp, profusely illustrated with nearly 500 illustrations, including 30 in colour. Approximately 1,000 entries. A very attractive and well-illustrated book, which explores the history, development, use and decoration of playing cards around the world, and includes an extensive (79 page) bibliography. Head and tail of spine bumped, scratch to spine, slight rubbing to extremities, top edge of textblock darkened, endpapers somewhat browned, agetoning to page edges, a Good copy showing some age-toning of the contents. In a torn dustwrapper which is torn with loss at the upper and lower edges and on the spine panel.

Seller: Wykeham Books, LONDON, United Kingdom