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Synopsis
For your average 1960s or 70s schoolboy, the week was largely given over to amassing a football card collection, and later, the sticker annual. The cards were swapped with schoolmates, fought over, and more were purchased—yet somehow you still ended up with only the Birmingham City first team. In this 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, charting its development through the decades up to the modern-day sticker album. In doing so, the book provides a nostalgic, photographic history of the game.
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About the Author
Rob Jovanovic is the author of Beck: On a Backwards River, Adventures in Hi-Fi: The complete R.E.M. and books on Pavement, Big Star, Nirvana and the Velvet Underground. He's written for Mojo, Uncut and Record Collector magazines. He's had shelving put in to house his football card collection.
Review
'Satisfy your inner anorak' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A tremendously nostalgic history of football cards and albums' THE TIMES 'A fascinating history by an expert on the subject. Buy it, love it, then give it to dad for Christmas.' SUNDAY SPORT 'The entire history of this collecting craze is wonderfully captured in a smashing little book SWAP YER!' ROTHERHAM STAR 'A fantastic addition to any card collector's library - an ideal Christmas stocking filler!' CARD TIMES 'This colourful book provokes bundles of wonderful memories... splendid' WINGER 'Superb little gem' RACING AND FOOTBALL OUTLOOK
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- PublisherOrion Publishing
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0752873121
- ISBN 13 9780752873121
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages160
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Swap Yer: The Wonderful World Of Football Cards And Sticker Albums
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Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom, London, 2005
ISBN 10: 0752873121
ISBN 13: 9780752873121
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 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. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR001582447
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