Category: Games

How to Play Mah-Jhong. The Chinese Game of the Four Winds

Price: $455.00

Publisher: Ottawa, ON, The Mah-Jhong Co.

Seller ID: Books014631

Condition: Good

Ottawa 1920s : "Sets manufactured by The Mah-Jhong Co. Ottawa, Canada" (foot of front cover). No printer, date, or place noted. Saddle stapled card covers. Light soil, and cup rings to rear cover; spine split above top staple and beneath the lower; light staining to page 3; leaves toned. The Introduction enthusiastically places mahjong in Ancient China: "First invented to amuse the ladies at the court of the Emperor of Wu, about 472, B. C. the game has become down through the centuries universally popular throughout China, despite the fact that in ancient China the penalty was death by beheadi...
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How to Play Modern Backgammon. Containing the Official Rules as adopted and played by the leading New York Clubs

Price: $89.58

Publisher: New York, John Samuels

Seller ID: Books014230

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

16 pages. No stated date of issue. Clean and unmarked. 5.75 x 4.3 inches.
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Image for [Chess] La Plus Nouvelle Academie Universelle des Jeux, ou divertissements innocens, contenant les regles des jeux de cartes permis : du billard, du mail, de la courte-paume, de la longue-paume, du trictrac, du revertier,... et des echecs [complet]

[Chess] La Plus Nouvelle Academie Universelle des Jeux, ou divertissements innocens, contenant les regles des jeux de cartes permis : du billard, du mail, de la courte-paume, de la longue-paume, du trictrac, du revertier,... et des echecs [complet]

Price: $723.51

Publisher: Amsterdam et Leipzig, Arkstee & Merkus : 1752

Seller ID: Books013247

Binding: leather

Condition: Good

[iv], 392; 392; xiv, 273, [3], [40] pages. Frontispiece to vols I and II, half title to III. Six plates in I (five folding), and two folding plates in II. Early 19th century binding with considerable chipping to spines, presumably stabilized at some point; else generally a tidy set. 6.25 x 4.1 inches.
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Electronic Games Magazine. Vol. 1 No. 10, December 1982

By: Arnie Katz, ed.

Price: $48.24

Publisher: New York, Reese Publishing : 1982

Seller ID: Books012620

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

138 pages. Light wear. Small date stamp on the S of GAMES on front cover.
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Electronic Games Magazine. Vol. 1 No. 13, March 1983

By: Arnie Katz, ed.

Price: $48.24

Publisher: New York, Reese Publishing : 1983

Seller ID: Books012621

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

114 pages. Light wear. Small date stamp on the E of GAMES on front cover.
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Electronic Games Magazine. Vol. 1 No. 15, May 1983

By: Arnie Katz, ed.

Price: $48.24

Publisher: New York, Reese Publishing : 1983

Seller ID: Books012622

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

114 pages. Light wear. Small date stamp on the E of GAMES on front cover.
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Electronic Games Magazine. Vol. 1 No. 9, November 1982

By: Arnie Katz, ed.

Price: $48.24

Publisher: New York, Reese Publishing : 1982

Seller ID: Books012619

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

122 pages. Light wear. Small date stamp on the E of GAMES on front cover.
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Hand-and-Rod-Puppets. A New Adventure in the Art of Puppetry [signed]

By: Batchelder, Marjorie; and Vivian Michael

Price: $103.36

Publisher: Columbus, OH, Ohio State University : 1947

Seller ID: Books013547

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

ix, 74 pages. Signed by Marjorie Batchelder on the title page; else unmarked.
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Kear's Reprint of the Scottish Draught Player. Second edition, 1851-3

By: Drummond, John, and James Lees.

Price: $75.80

Publisher: Bristol, J.A. Kear : 1895

Seller ID: Books006104

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

xii, 300 pages. Title page publication date 1892-5. Containing 18 openings with 2390 variations, together with 151 original positions. Revised and corrected up to date by James Lees, Dalmellington. Soiling to covers and chips off spine. Clean unmarked interior in sound binding with sturdy hinges.
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Mind At Play. The Psychology of Video Games

By: Loftus, Geoffrey R. and Elizabeth F.

Price: $62.01

Publisher: New York, Basic Books : 1983

Seller ID: Books013883

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

x, 191 pages. Clean and unmarked; jacket not price clipped. 8.4 x 5.75 inches
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Sam Loyd's Picture Puzzles With Answers

By: Loyd, Sam

Price: $1,012.92

Publisher: Brooklyn, Sam Loyd [Jr.] : 1924

Seller ID: Books010152

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

[6], 114, [8] pages; lacking the two colored supplements advertised on front cover paper onlay and printed in b&w at rear of book. Covers soiled, front endpaper a bit grubby and with evidence of worming along hinge. Binding is sound; no inscriptions. Offered with an as-new copy of the Algrove/Lee Valley reprint that "deleted" 14 of the original puzzles that "caricature non-whites in various derogatory ways".
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The Theory of the Modern Scientific Game of Whist. Together with the Laws of Whist As Revised by the Portland and Arlington Clubs

By: Pole, William

Price: $68.91

Publisher: New York, Frederick A Stokes Company : 1887

Seller ID: Books009411

Binding: Boards

Condition: Very Good

136 pages. Pictorial paper covered boards with light rubbing and soiling. Ex Montreal Fraser Institute library with their plate to front pastedown, accession number to foot of Contents page, small circular blind embossed seal to pagee 9-13, no evidence of pocket at rear. Unobtrusive tideline to lower margin up to page 18; overall a clean interior. Binding sound and hinges secure.
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