The Playing-Card is a quarterly publication, publishing scholarly articles covering all aspects of playing cards and of the games played with them, produced by the International Playing-Card Society (IPCS). The Playing-Card's articles are mostly in English, but also in French, German, Italian, and Spanish.
| Editor | Elettra Deganello |
|---|---|
| Former editors | Peter Endebrock |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Publisher | International Playing-Card Society |
| First issue | 1972 |
| Language | English |
| ISSN | 0305-2133 |
| OCLC | 63765414 |
According to card game historian David Parlett, card game research has become "a particular pursuit" of the IPCS and many of its field researchers publish their findings in The Playing-Card. This has contributed to "a growing awareness that a society's indoor games are as distinctive of its culture as its arts, cuisine, or social customs, and are worth recording for the light they throw on that community's personality."[1]
History
editThe journal was founded in 1972, as The Journal of the Playing-Card Society (until 1980). Since then it has produced an annual volume of four (formerly six) issues. It has an index of its articles for the years 1972–1997,[2] and contents listings for issues from 1980 to the present.[3]
Contributors
editNotable contributors to the journal have included:
Editors
editThe editors of The Playing-Card and its predecessor have been:[7]
- Sylvia Mann: August 1972 (1/1) – November 1978 (8/2)
- Eddie Cass: February 1979 (8/3) – November 1984 (13/2)
- Trevor Denning: February 1985 (13/3) – May 1990 (18/4)
- Stuart Lawrence: August 1990 (19/1) – May 1995 (23/4)
- George Beal: July/August 1995 (25/1) – Jan/Feb 1998 (26/4)
- Michael Cooper: July/August 1998 (27/1) – April/June 2006 (34/4)
- Peter Endebrock: June/Sept 2006 (35/1) – April/June 2023 (51/4)
- Elettra Deganello: July/Sept 2023 (51/1) – present.
References
edit- ^ Parlett (2008), p. xi.
- ^ "Combined Index of IPCS Publications 1972-1997". 1999.
- ^ "The Journal of the International Playing-Card Society".
- ^ Parlett (2008), p. 151.
- ^ Parlett (2008), p. 149.
- ^ Depaulis, Thierry (2010). "Dawson’s Game: Blackjack and the Klondike," in The Playing-Card, Journal of the International Playing-Card Society, Vol. 38, No. 4, ed. by Peter Endebrock, April–June 2010, 317 pages. Published by The International Playing-Card Society, ISSN 0305-2133.
- ^ The volume and issue numbers of the journal are shown in brackets below.
Bibliography
edit- Parlett, David (2008). The Penguin Book of Card Games, Penguin, London. ISBN 978-0-141-03787-5
External links
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