Schott's Sporting Gaming & Idling Miscellany Quotable Playing Cards!
Schott's Sporting, Gaming & Idling Playing Cards will each feature a quotation which will cover the three aspects of the book and will range from David Mamet on Poker to Ernest Hemingway on what it is to be a Loser. The specially selected quotations are arranged by themes, such as: Aces winning Kings chess Queens women in sport Jacks cheating 10s defeat Who could resist buying playing cards with quotations as memorable as: 'Playing snooker gives you firm hands and helps to build up character. It is the ideal recreation for dedicated nuns' - Archbishop Luigi Barbarito 'Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting.' - Robert S Surtees 'Winning doesn't really matter, as long as you win.' - Vinnie Jones
Ben Schott is the bestselling author of Schott's Original Miscellany and Schott's Food & Drink Miscellany. A photographer, designer, picker-up of unconsidered trifles, and miscellanist, he lives in London and divides his time between Highgate and the reading rooms of the British Library.
Dimensions : 20.3 x 25.4 x 4.7 cm
FRH2-1.00-0.04!isbn:978-0747577164!]
