Playing Cards
Rare and modern books
Tilley, Roger
Octopus Bks.,
1973
Playing Cards
Rare and modern books
Tilley, Roger
Octopus Bks.,
1973
7.25 €
(Hyde,
United Kingdom)
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Details
- Year of publication
- 1973
- ISBN
- 0706400496
- Place of printing
- London
- Author
- Tilley, Roger
- Publishers
- Octopus Bks.
- Size
- 9.75 x 8.25 inches
- Keyword
- Card Games, Social History,
- Cover description
- Very Good
- Binding description
- Hard Cover
- Dust jacket
- True
- State of preservation
- Fine
- Languages
- English
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Inscribed
- False
- First edition
- False
Description
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with pen indenting to rear. 96pp. A history of playing cards from the earliest in China, India and Persia to the beginning of the four-suited pack in 14th century Italy and beyond. Very well illustrated.
