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Playing Cards in Photographs Book

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Playing Cards in Photographs Book

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Playing Cards in Photographs Book

From the ridiculous to the sublime - and everything in between - this book showcases hundreds of historic, funny, fun, and fascinating appearances of the lowly playing card in a range of fascinating vintage and contemporary photographs. They appear in games worldwide, of course. But take a moment to minutely examine a subject, as author and collector Laurence Lubliner has in this book, and you'll uncover the most unusual things. In Playing Cards in Photographs, Lubliner visually chronicles the countless unusual situations and settings in which cards have appeared over the last 150 years. Here, we see them on troop transport ships, in museums and store windows, on the sides of airplanes, in the hands of magicians, in the form of gigantic yet fragile pasteboard structures, on costumes, passed under tables by gamblers, in store windows - and virtually everywhere else. The book is a visual feast for collectors, photographers, designers, card aficionados, magicians, history buffs, and lovers of the odd & unusual. 96 pages in giant 11 x 11" hardcover, with over 100 vintage photographs, text printed in two colors.

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Wasn't expecting to like it that much!

I had mediocre expectations of this book, and it really surprised me - it is fantastic! It's not so much a book with photos of playing cards, but focuses more on people doing things with playing cards - playing games, even dressing up in costumes involving playing cards. And photos are from the last 150 years, so you get to see people from yesteryear enjoying playing cards. Like us, they are collectors and gamers and enthusiasts, even if they did live in a different time. The book is a hard cover, with glossy photos, and these are all the focus, with some comments from the author. A real pleasure to page through and enjoy!

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