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History of Playing Cards and a Bibliography of Cards and Gaming
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March 1, 2001
Unabridged edition from Dover Pubns (March 1, 2001); titled "A History of Playing Cards: And a Bibliography of Cards and Gaming"
9780486412368 | details & prices | 462 pages | 6.75 × 9.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.80 lbs | List price $22.95
June 1, 1960
from Dover Pubns (June 1, 1960)
9780486215440 | details & prices | List price $8.95
About: Most likely invented in the Far East, playing cards arrived in Europe at roughly the same time as paper money and gunpowder, and by the early eleventh century were in widespread use in France.
About: Most likely invented in the Far East, playing cards arrived in Europe at roughly the same time as paper money and gunpowder, and by the early eleventh century were in widespread use in France.