Classic Boxing Cards : 56 Full-Color Reproductions from the Mecca Cigarette Sets, 1909-1910

Rating:
Summary: Not really very useful unless...
Review: This book is not all that great unless you are looking for some nice prints of the old tobacco cards from the beginning of the century. But with online auctions and internet access, you may as well go out and pick up a few of the actual cards themselves. Now they might not be as inexpensive as this book, and it all depends on your own personal tastes, but I would much rather spend $20 on a 90 year old card than $4 on a book that reprints them. Of course, it would be tough to acquire 56 different cards from these sets without some monetary investment and time.

Rating:
Summary: Not really very useful unless...
Review: This book is not all that great unless you are looking for some nice prints of the old tobacco cards from the beginning of the century. But with online auctions and internet access, you may as well go out and pick up a few of the actual cards themselves. Now they might not be as inexpensive as this book, and it all depends on your own personal tastes, but I would much rather spend $20 on a 90 year old card than $4 on a book that reprints them. Of course, it would be tough to acquire 56 different cards from these sets without some monetary investment and time.