Novel Library 43 - Richard L. Frey - How to Play Canasta
Richard L. Frey - How to Play Canasta
Novel Library 43, 1950
Cover design uncredited
The game of Canasta was devised by Segundo Santos and Alberto Serrato in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1939. In the 1940s the game quickly spread in myriad variations to Chile, Peru, Brazil and Argentina, where its rules were further refined before being introduced to the United States in 1948. It was there referred to as the Argentine Rummy game by Ottilie H. Reilly in 1949 and Michael Scully of Coronet magazine in 1953. The game quickly became a card-craze boom in the 1950s providing a sales avalanche of card sets, card trays and books about the subject. (Wikipedia)
About half of the Novel Library series was devoted to "Love Novels," a category of spicy romances pioneered by the Depression-era Lending Library publishers. Most of the remainder comprised sensational novels from the 1930's and 40's plus a few lurid "hardboiled" mysteries, all with the same sexy packaging that gives the imprint a uniform veneer of sleaziness. The inclusion of the canasta book is inexplicable.
Novel Library 43 - Richard L. Frey - How to Play Canasta
Richard L. Frey - How to Play Canasta
Novel Library 43, 1950
Cover design uncredited
The game of Canasta was devised by Segundo Santos and Alberto Serrato in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1939. In the 1940s the game quickly spread in myriad variations to Chile, Peru, Brazil and Argentina, where its rules were further refined before being introduced to the United States in 1948. It was there referred to as the Argentine Rummy game by Ottilie H. Reilly in 1949 and Michael Scully of Coronet magazine in 1953. The game quickly became a card-craze boom in the 1950s providing a sales avalanche of card sets, card trays and books about the subject. (Wikipedia)
About half of the Novel Library series was devoted to "Love Novels," a category of spicy romances pioneered by the Depression-era Lending Library publishers. Most of the remainder comprised sensational novels from the 1930's and 40's plus a few lurid "hardboiled" mysteries, all with the same sexy packaging that gives the imprint a uniform veneer of sleaziness. The inclusion of the canasta book is inexplicable.