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The Card
Author | : Michael O'Keeffe |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2009-10-13 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0061740004 |
Since its limited release just after the turn of the twentieth century, this American Tobacco cigarette card has beguiled and bedeviled collectors. First identified as valuable in the 1930s, when the whole notion of card collecting was still young, the T206 Wagner has remained the big score for collectors who have scoured card shows, flea markets, estate sales, and auctions for the portrait of baseball's greatest shortstop. Only a few dozen T206 Wagners are known to still exist. Most, with their creases, stains, and dog-eared corners, look worn and tattered, like they've been around for almost a century. But one—The Card—appears to have defied the travails of time. Thanks to its sharp corners and its crisp portrait of Honus Wagner, The Card has become the most famous and desired baseball card in the world. Over the decades, as The Card has changed hands, its value has skyrocketed. It was initially sold for $25,000 by a small card shop in a nondescript strip mall. Years later, hockey great Wayne Gretzky bought it at the venerable Sotheby's auction house for $451,000. Then, more recently, it sold for $1.27 million on eBay. Today worth over $2 million, it has transformed a sleepy hobby into a billion-dollar industry that is at times as lawless as the Wild West. The Card has made men wealthy, certainly, but it has also poisoned lifelong friendships and is fraught with controversy—from its uncertain origins and the persistent questions about its provenance to the possibility that it is not exactly as it seems. Now for the first time, award-winning investigative reporters Michael O'Keeffe and Teri Thompson follow the trail of The Card from a Florida flea market to the hands of the world's most prominent collectors. They delve into a world of counterfeiters and con men and look at the people who profit from what used to be a kids' pastime, as they bring to light ongoing investigations into sports collectibles. O'Keeffe and Thompson also examine the life of the great Honus Wagner, a ballplayer whose accomplishments have been eclipsed by his trading card, and the strange and fascinating subculture of sports memorabilia and its astonishing decline. Intriguing and eye-opening, The Card is a ground-breaking look at a uniquely American hobby.
The Book of Card Tricks - For Drawing-Room and Stage Entertainments
Author | : R. Kunard |
Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2014-07-07 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 1473395178 |
This book comprises a practical treatise on the art of conjuring with cards, including detailed instructions and handy tips on mastering a variety of baffling card tricks. Complete easy-to-follow instructions and simple illustrations, this text is ideal for the novice magician and is not to be me missed by the discerning collector. The chapters of this text include: 'Principles of Sleight of Hand', 'Sleight of Hand Tricks', 'Tricks with Ordinary Cards not Requiring Sleight of Hand', 'Tricks Requiring the Use of Prepared Cards or Sleight of Hand', 'Tricks Requiring Mechanical Cards or the Employment of Special Apparatus', and 'Card Sharper's Tricks'. We are proudly republishing this antique book now complete with a new introduction on card tricks.
The Expert at the Card Table
Author | : S. W. Erdnase |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2012-05-07 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 0486156672 |
DIVThe one essential guidebook to attaining the highest level of card mastery, from false shuffling and card palming to dealing from the bottom and three-card monte, plus 14 dazzling card tricks. /div
The Penguin Book of Card Games
Author | : David Parlett |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 688 |
Release | : 2008-08-07 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 0141916109 |
The Penguin Book of Card Games is the authoritative up-to-date compendium, describing an abundance of games to be played both for fun and by serious players. Auctions, trumpless hands, cross-ruffing and lurching: card players have a language all of their own. From games of high skill (Bridge) to games of high chance (Newmarket) to trick-taking (Whist) and banking (Pontoon), David Parlett, seasoned specialist in card games, takes us masterfully through the countless games to choose from. Not content to merely show us games with the conventional fifty-two card pack, Parlett covers many games played with other types of cards - are you brave enough to play with Tarot? With a 'working description' of each game, with the rules, variations and origins of each, as well as an appendix of games invented by the author himself, The Penguin Book of Card Games will delight, entertain and inform both the novice and the seasoned player.
Giant Book of Card Games
Author | : Sheila Anne Barry |
Publisher | : Sterling Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 9780806948096 |
Includes instructions and illustrations of strategy for a variety of card games.
Ultimate Book of Card Games
Author | : Scott McNeely |
Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2012-01-06 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 1452110484 |
Classic and comprehensive, this guide to over 350 games is sure to appeal to all ages. From Bridge to Poker and Solitaireto Hearts, card games are a beloved source of entertainment and competition (and they are recession proof!). This authoritative book is ideal for every household, college dorm, family cabin, or neighborhood bar that has a pack of cards. Designed in the style of the popular Ultimate Bar Book, this essential resource provides the rules to dozensof variations of your favorite games, and a few you've probably never heard of (Bezique, anyone?). With simple instructions and clear illustrations to guide the way, this volume will be a welcome addition to any gamer's library.
The Book of Card Games
Author | : Peter Arnold |
Publisher | : Barnes & Noble Publishing |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Card games |
ISBN | : 9781566199506 |
"The object of this new book is to explain how to play the world's best card games as clearly as possible. Technical terms have been kept to a minimum and defined as they arise, and example deals have been used where appropriate"--Jacket
Great Card Games Book & Kit.
Author | : Alfred Sheinwold |
Publisher | : Sterling Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Card games |
ISBN | : 9781402731365 |
Includes easy-to-read instructions and illustrations.
Cassell's Book of In-door Amusements, Card Games, and Fireside Fun
Author | : Various |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2019-11-29 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : |
Cassell's Book of In-Door Amusements, Card Games, and Fireside Fun is a guide to in-door fun events and card games, explained for a younger audience. It is largely occupied with games and sports which are usually carried on out-of-doors, it will be seen that the present book, which is almost exclusively devoted to indoor games of various kinds, forms a very fitting supplement to the other.