When not playing Subbuteo or rearranging the Shoot League Ladders on a Saturday tea-time to take in that afternoon's results, the rest of the week for your average 1960s or 70s schoolboy was largely given over to amassing the football card collection, and, later, its successor the sticker annual. The cards were eagerly purchased at the newsagent's, complete with luminous stick of pink gum; they were 'skimmed' against a brick wall in some complicated game in the playground, swapped with school mates, fought over, more were purchased . . . yet somehow you still ended up with only the Birmingham City first team. They were the Pokemon cards of the Wilson governments; and today they are as collectable as their modern-day Japanese equivalent. In this (first ever) history of the football card and sticker annual Rob Jovanovic traces the history of the playing card right back to the golden age of the cigarette card (in turn a development from nineteenth-century French business cards), charting its development through the decades upto the modern-day sticker album. In doing so, the book provides a nostalgic, photographic history of the game
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Orion Publishing Group
ISBN-13
9780752873121
eBay Product ID (ePID)
90756310
Product Key Features
Author
Rob Jovanovic
Language
English
Dimensions
Item Height
170mm
Item Weight
290g
Item Width
125mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
Publication Year
2005
Format
Hardback
Title_Author
Rob Jovanovic
Book Title
Swap Yer: the Wonderful World of Football Cards and Sticker Albums
Genre
Sports
Number of Pages
160 Pages
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