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Cincinnati: The United States Playing Card Company Repaired; Laminate Moderately Peeling; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Heavy Yellowing Due to Age. SUB-TITLE: Hoyle Up-to-Date. Endorsed by Association of American Playing Card Manufacturers. SYNOPSIS: According to Hoyle . . . Some four decades before the American Revolution, there existed in London a number of coffee houses in which the gentry and merchant classes gathered to sip chocolate and coffee, to talk, and to play Whist, the increasingly popular card game destined to be the forerunner of Auction and Contract Bridge. One of the habitués of the Crown Coffee House on Bedford Row was Edmond Hoyle, a middle-aged lawyer. Hoyle became so proficient at Whist that he decided to teach it and forego the practice of law. History repeated itself two hundred years later when Charles Goren turned from law to become America's great Bridge… Read More