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Playing Cards by Buzz Poole (Hardcover, 2005)

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Author:Buzz Poole. Playing Cards. Each month we recycle over 2.3 million books, saving over 12,500 tonnes of books a year from going straight into landfill sites. All of our paper waste is recycled and turned into corrugated cardboard.

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Playing cards are ephemeral; they are used, become worn and then just get thrown away. Good quality examples of playing cards featuring the graphics of the past are hard to find in sufficient volume and variety to make an interesting collection. That is why the discovery of this collection at an estate auction in upstate New York was such a windfall. The 300 cards collected here were printed during the 1930s and 1940s. The subjects are as varied as the graphic styles, and for that very reason all of these cards provide the opportunity to look back through a well-focused window into the inspiring and colorful past of playing card graphic design. In examining the cards and the industry that produced them,