HARGRAVE, Catherine Perry.?A History of Playing Cards and a Bibliography of Cards and Gaming.?Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1930. Publisher's red cloth, color frontispiece, illustrated, including color plates under tissue, spine lettered gilt. Large 4to. Ex-libris H.T. Morley and Burton Sperber, with penciled notes to rear pastedown and ownership signatures to front. One corner bumped, scattered soiling to cloth, scattered penciled marginalia by Morley, else fine internally.An attractive oversize work on the history of cards that remains an important reference work nearly 100 years after its initial publication. Hargrave based the book on the famous card collection of the United States Playing Card Company of Cincinnati.