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C. Arthur Pearson, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. New Edition. 316 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Major tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Heavy tanning to text block edges and cracks to guttering with exposed netting. Both hinges are cracked with exposed netting. Binding is loose. Boards have visible sunning and noticeable bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and major sunning to spine.
Twentieth Century Standard Puzzle Book- Magic Squares, Picture Puzzles Enigmas, Charades, Riddles Conundrums, Nuts to Crack by A. Cyril Pearson - 1900-01-01
by A. Cyril Pearson
Twentieth Century Standard Puzzle Book- Magic Squares, Picture Puzzles Enigmas, Charades, Riddles Conundrums, Nuts to Crack
by A. Cyril Pearson
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George Routledge & Sons Ltd, 1900-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Publisher: George Routledge & Sons Ltd.<br>Date of Publication: 1900<br>Binding: hardcover<br>Edition: <br>Condition: Good<br>Description: This is an Original, 100+ year old printing of this famous PUZZLE book. This old book is clean, solid, and in good shape! This is a flexible cover hardcover book with 187 pages including several illustrations. The binding is strong with all pages firmly attached. The pages/puzzle are clean and unmarked with no soiling writing or tears. The prior owner has placed a book plate and signed the first end paper. The paper over the spine has partly chipped away (roughly 30% is missing) but the binding is solid with all pages firmly attached. The book is undated but I can tell it is from the early 1900's for sure. This old book is CLean and Solid with general signs of age!<br>
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Acrostic Dictionary
by Mrs. A. Cyril Pearson
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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Future Combined with Science Fiction 1942 Vol. 2 # 4 April
by Lowndes, Robert A.W. (editor): S.D. Gottesman (Cyril Kornbluth) / Albert A. Gilmour / Richard Wilson / Carol Grey (Lowndes) / Martin Pearson (Donald Wollheim) / Basil Wells / Bowen Conway (John Michel) / R.R. Winterbotham / Chester B. Conant / Hannes Bok
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Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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Holyoke, MA: Columbia Publications, Inc. 1st Edition, 1942 ----------pulp magazine, standard pulp size. Small piece out of front cover top right corner, small chip to spine bottom, spine a little dusty, less than the usual small edge tears, former owner name inside, a VG to VG+ copy. Back cover advertisement is for Remington Rand Inc.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good to Very Good+. Illus. by John R. Forte Jr. (front cover). Note: our prices on Biblio are the LOWEST of any of the sites on which we list our books.
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Acrostic Dictionary Containing More Than Thirty Thousand Words with Their Initials and Finals Alphabetically Arranged [Hardcover] Mrs. A. Cyril Pearson
by Mrs. A. Cyril Pearson
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South Lyon, Michigan, United States
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$17.61
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George Routledge & Sons. hardcover. Acceptable. 0x0x0. 1884; black cloth boards with dark leather spine and corners; boards and spine are very worn, especially along the edges; no jacket; markings to endpapers and pastedowns; several notes written on bottom half of page 256 and to the following blank pages; 256 pages; 12mo, 6 3/4" - 7 3/4" Tall
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The Twentieth Century Standard Puzzle Book. Three parts in One Volume
by Pearson, A. Cyril (ed)
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Simi Valley, California, United States
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$26.50
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George Routledge & Sons, 1907-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. . Spine,cover and edges shows wear and tanning. Spine has tearing. Hinge shows wear. Title page shows minor foxing .Pages shows tanning.
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Acrostic Dictionary - Containing About Forty Thousand Words with Their Initials and Finals Alphabetically Arranged
by Pearson Mrs. A. Cyril
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Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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London: Pearson, 1901. Maroon cloth, endpapers foxed, text paper generally darkening, otherwise sound. Acrostics, particularly double acrostics, were a popular type of puzzle in newspapers and periodicals up to about 1930, when they were superseded by crosswords. In earlier times they were sometimes used as a form of encryption. Several have been detected in the Hebrew of the Old Testament.. New Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Pictured Puzzles and Word Play: A Companion to the Twentieth Century Standard Puzzle Book
by PEARSON, A. CYRIL (Ed)
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DUNEDIN, New Zealand
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$24.14
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George Routledge & SOns (n/d). Octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering & puzzle motifs to front board, teg, frontispiece, 382pp, illus, VG- (only about half of spine remaining, fading & scuffing to spine & boards, light fraying to spine base & board corners, rear hinge cracked, light tanning to page edges, occasional foxing)
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The Twentieth Century Book of Puzzles - UNMARKED - Sam Lloyd
by A. Cyril Pearson
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Brookfield, Illinois, United States
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$45.00
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David McKay Company, Inc, 1900. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. This old book is clean, solid and in great shape! This is a hardcover book with 124 pages including over 100 illustrations. The book is undated but is definitely old and from the early 1900s or late 1800s. All of the puzzle pages are clean and unmarked! There is a Sam Loyd gratitude written on the contents page. The binding is strong with all pages firmly attached. The pages are clean with no soiling, writing, or tears. The covers are in great shape and show some light edgewear and light soiling. This old book looks and feels great! We always ship in a sturdy cardboard box!
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ACROSTIC DICTIONARY: containing more than Thirty Thousand Words with their Initials and Finals Alphabetically Arranged
by Pearson, Mrs. A. Cyril
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Clarence Park, South Australia, Australia
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$33.07
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Preface by the Author. (London: Routledge and Sons: 1884) First Edition. Cloth (that is, hard covers) pp 256. Standard Reference series. First Edition. An owner’s name in pencil at head of of both verso of front free endpaper and half-title leaf and crossed out in black in both places. Head and foot of spine and corners and edges of boards rubbed and worn; both external hinges well rubbed and the upper one starting to split; otherwise a very good copy.
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Acrostic Dictionary
by Mrs A. Cyril Pearson
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Nottingham, Derbyshire, United Kingdom
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$43.89
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George Routledge & Sons. Good. 1884. Hardback.
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THE TWENTIETH CENTURY STANDARD PUZZLE BOOK Three Parts in One Volume
by Pearson, Cyril A
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WINTERTON, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
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$59.82
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GB: Routledge, 1907. Presumed first edition. Foreword dated 1907. Blue pictorial cloth. Clean tight text but covers worn and spine a bit damaged. Photo on request.. 1st Edition. Hardback. Good/No DW.
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