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By: "Cavendish"
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1895. New York.: 1895
Seller ID: 1883
Cloth. Illustrations. Gilt edge pages. Slight wear top and bottom of spine, corners, and bottom edges of cover. Front end paper has small ink-erasing damage upper corner; book plate partially torn out with hand printed name and 1896. Spot, low er po rtion page 38 and pages 130-136. The author describes the complete rules and etiquette of the game with English and American scoring. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $37.50
Publisher: I. V. Kern's Verlag (Max Muller). (Circa 1910). Breslav.:
Seller ID: 1872
Cloth, illustrated. Illustrations. Book plate on front end paper. Fly leaf loose at top and bottom. Descriptions and rules for a variety of card games, illustrated. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $17.50
Publisher: New York, Jaffre Products Corp., Publishers: 1934
Seller ID: 7559
(1934). "Series 3" on front cover. Cloth backed wrappers, illustrated. Text illustrated with red and black illustrations of drawing of tricks. 48 pages. 1/2 inch tear to top of back cover. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Meadville, PA, Keystone View Company: 1900
Seller ID: 9041
No. 11751, copyright by B.L. Singloy. Color stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside. View of the formal gardens with water fountain looking toward the casino. People in front of the casino. Commentary mentions that 6 people a month take their lives due to the gambling losses. Colored with greens and some red. Clean copy with bumped upper left corner. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $12.50
Seller ID: 11280
circa.1910. Printed stereograph (7 x 3 1/2 inch), just a title across the bottom. No publisher's name. Image, in color, of the 'Pike' with the Bath House and Pool, known as the 'Plunge', on the right during the day. The Pike in Long Beach was the most famous Amusement Zone on the west coast from 1902 to 1969. A mile long beach boardwalk along the shore and home to the 'Cyclone Racer' among other famous rides. One could attend movies, eat lunch or dinner, watch vaudeville... View more info
By: Barnum, P. T.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Buffalo, New York, The Courier Company: 1879
Seller ID: 14658
Early edition of this work. 324 pages; illustrations; red cloth binding with gilt lettering (5 x 8 inch). Wear to the top and bottom of the spine, along the edges. P.T. Barnum issued this edition after the 1876 first was sold out by his publisher. Intro says the Autobiography was later issued in editions of 50,000 copies so he could sell them for a dollar apiece. Includeds his famous lecture 'Art of Money-Getting'. Good clean copy. View more info
By: Brooks, Ruth
Price: $37.50
Publisher: Boston, Mass, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.: 1932
Seller ID: 13013
127 pages; 52+ puzzles; red publisher's cloth with dust jacket. Tears with chipping of the dust jacket. Several of the puzzles are filled in with pencil marks. Very good clean copy. View more info
By: Brown, Marshall
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Chicago, IL, S. C. Griggs and Company: 1895
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 019922
Original publisher's red cloth binding. 4 1/2" x 7." 222 pages, complete. Index in the back organized by the first word of each saying. Front free endpaper has an inscription written in black ink, dated to 1899, saying: "Isa A. We Pledge, July 4th, 1899, M. H. F., 'There's a time to laugh." Gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt. Red ribbon bookmark laid-in. Pages are very clean and intact. Covers and spine are very clean and inta... View more info
By: Cotton, Charles
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Barre, Massachusetts, Imprint Society: 1970
Seller ID: 8039
Number 1428 of 1950 copies printed at The Press of A. Colish and signed by the illustrator. Full leather binding with publisher's slip case, which has slight wear at the opening. In his interesting introduction, Marston relates biographical information about Cotton and the history and a bibliography of the book, first published in 1674. The text includes rules for: Billiards, Trucks, Bowling, Chess, Picket, Gleek, L'Ombre, Cribbidge (or Cribbage, in modern spelling), All... View more info
By: Dalton, Henry
Price: $37.50
Publisher: Cassell & Company, Limited. (Circa 1885). New York.:
Seller ID: 1892
Cloth, illlustrated. Illustrations. Slight wear top and bottom of spine with slight sun fading. Bottom back cover, and front near spine, has some water stain and discoloration. Some chapters include: Acting Charades; Acting Proverbs ("All is Fa ir i n Love and War"); Drawing Room Farce; Intellectual Games in Which the Players Talk; Board Games; Puzzles; etc. View more info
By: Depew, Arthur M.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Abingdon-Cokesbury Press. (1932). New York.: 1932
Seller ID: 1907
Illustrated cloth. Dust wrapper. Untrimmed pages. Book plate on front fly leaf. This party book contains fifty-two completely planned parties, each around a theme, including invitations, decorations, costumes and refreshments. Four suggested p artie s for each month such as: May; May-Day Party, College Field Day Party, Aircraft Party, Shipwreck Party (costume). View more info
By: Douglas, Bert
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Heston, Middlesex, Edward Bagshawe & Co.:
Seller ID: 5205
Fine copy in dust wrapper with small scuffs to back cover. 59 pages plus four page catalog at back of book showing other magic books for sale. No date, circa 1935. View more info
By: Dunne, Frank
Price: $37.50
Publisher: David McKay. (circa 1911). Philadelphia.:
Seller ID: 1908
Second edition, revised. Illustrated cloth. Diagrams. Slight chipping top and bottom of spine. Small tear back edge of spine. Slight spotting back cover. Stain front fly leaf. Using diagrams the author describes the moves of the finest player s, opp osing each other, in Match or Tourney play. View more info
By: Elwell, J. B.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1906. New York.: 1906
Seller ID: 1888
Illustrated cloth. Illustrations. Gilt edges. Slight wear top and bottom of spine and corners. From the Preface, the author writes: "The main purpose which I have had in view in writing this book has been to provide my pupils with a simple and eleme ntary work on Bridge". Using illustrative hands, the author describes all the rules of play; dealing, the bidding process, the dummy, scoring, etc. View more info
Price: $17.50
Publisher: New York, New York, The Platt & Munk Co., Inc. Publishers: 1952
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 13011
unnumbered pages; 42 puzzles; yellow cloth publisher's binding, dust jacket with chipping and small tearing, former owner's name in ink inside the cover. Some of the puzzles has been filled in with pencil marks. Very good clean copy. View more info
Price: $17.50
Publisher: Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1948
Seller ID: 13010
88 pages; puzzles; publisher's black cloth binding, dust jacket under mylar. Game book, no markings on the inside. Very good clean copy. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Brentano's. 1903. New York.: 1903
Seller ID: 3166
Fifth edition. Fine bright copy. Cloth with gilt lettering and decorations on front cover and spine. Illustrated by over sixty critical endings and annotated games from actual play. 639 pages. Sample hands in red and black. From the Preface: "This t reatise on Whist is based upon the system of leads known as American Leads". "The purpose of this volume is to present to the student of the game the rules and maxims of play as laid down by the authorities, and p... View more info
Price: $37.50
Publisher: Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Company: 1899
Seller ID: 5248
Revised and Enlarged by Elizabeth J. Rook and Mrs. E,J.H. Goodfellow. Green cloth,silver decorations and red lettering. A fine copy of an attractive book. Chapters include: Games with Pen and Pencil; Games of Thought and Memory;Halloween Frolics; Games of Action; Catch Games and Forfeits. 167 pages plus eight page publisher's catalog. View more info
By: Irish, Marie
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Dayton, Ohio, Paine Publishing Company: 1922
Seller ID: 11196
177 pages; gray paper wrapper (4 3/4 x 7 inch). Contains recitations, monologues, welcomes, exercises and drills, dialogs and plays, pantomimes, songs, and tableaux centered around the Christmas holiday. Former owners signature on the title page, a few pencil marks and paper clip rust stains. Sometears along the spine. View more info
By: Johnson, George
Price: $25.00
Publisher: London, England, George Johnson, The Magic Wand Office: 1925
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 019735
Original publisher's gray boards with gilt marbled lines on front and back covers. 5" x 7 1/4." Ninety-three pages, complete. Advertisements for other magic trick books on the back cover. Black and white illustrations, complete. Pages and covers are clean. Only a small bit of chipping on the spine. A very clean and intact copy. Features tricks with billiard balls, coins, thimbles, and cards and miscellaneous sleights. The book describes how to perform th... View more info
