Games & Puzzles from OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994)

Battle Creek, MI: Kellogg (#192), 1931. Illustrated by color line drawings and game. First edition. Stapled pamphlet, color pictorial card covers. 4to. pp. [8]. VG. No. 3: Jack the Giant Killer, Sleeping Beauty, The Seven Swans, The Glass Hill. Each book features 4 stories with 4 game boards, 6 colored playing tokens and a fold down spinner which can… Read more about this item

Boston: Goode, 130 Newbury Street, n.d.. Illustrated by game board. game board, 4 colored lead horse pieces, two dice, one solid wood dice cup, 40 blue/green tokens in a cardboard tray housed in a red box. 9.675 x 5.675-inch board. Fine. Unopened playing pieces in stapled plastic bags. French directions on top cover, English directions folded and laid in from… Read more about this item

Berlin: Verlag Adolph Sala (with early company seal), n.d. ca. 1895. Illustrated by Nine 12.8x18.4cm colored boards (French, German, English) each with 8-3.5cm circles or tokens with the problem in a piece of the background covering the answer. Boxed game . approx. 17.5x19.5x4cm. Very Good/none/Very Good. Box relined, with edges restored in acid free paper, new hinge by KTB of… Read more about this item

Tokyo: Board of Tourist Industries, Japanese Government Railways, (1939). Translated by Z. T. Iwado. Illustrated by Color frontis, 10 diagrams and sepia photographs and reproductions. Assumed first edition. 234 L27-2039. Yapped card cover, with topboard illustration ad title. 12mo. pp. 76, [8] plates and colophon price 2Y. VG/missing original glassine/In clear archival cover. Light edge soil to cover, internally near… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1932). Illustrated by colored suite hands. First (SD) edition. Decorated yellow cloth, thick paper issue. 8vo. pp. 126. VG/Lacks jacket. Pencil owner, worn corners and soiled cover; internally very good. Foreword by Frank England. Rare contract bridge title from British film actor. 1940s Osborn and Culbertson bridge newspaper articles laid in..

England., circa early 1900's. Illustrated by color. Assumed first edition. Card Stock. 24mo. pp. [26 cards]. Fine. Contains Rules, Key to Illustrated Song Titles, 24 numbered Illustrated Song Title game cards..

N. P: P. F. Volland Co, circa early 1900's. Translated by map. Assumed first edition. 11 volumes. Folded 10x16cm Dinnergram in 5x9cm envelope. 48mo. pp. [2]. Fine/In like envelope. Delightful individual messages in envelopes with blank header apparently used as place cards for dinner settings. Sample message: Dear Friend, Your voice is splendid but don't start singing Home Sweet Home..… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1943. Illustrated by Lieberman b/w line drawings. First (SD) edition. Pictorial stapled wraps. 4to. pp. Unpaginated (text recto, blank verso throughout). Near Fine. Rubbed cover, staple marks showing. Remarkably fine and blank internally. From cover: "This book is guaranteed to keep any party going as fast as a Lockheed Lightning. It contains six sets… Read more about this item

Rutland, VT & Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle, (1966). Illustrated by black shapes. Stated first printing edition. Pictorial stapled wraps. 4to. pp. 55. Green tile still in shrink wrap. VG. As the story goes in China...a man named Tan dropped a square tile and it broke into seven pieces. He tried to put it back into a square, but… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, (1997). Illustrated by full color Michael Welply (main and cover), Peter Sarson (game) and other illustrations by Richard Hook, Peter Sarson and Roger Stewart. Stated First American (&N1) edition. Title II Series. Gloss pictorial boards. 4to. pp. 29, [1], fold-out game board. Index. Fine/No jacket, as issued. Unique, educational and reinforcing… Read more about this item

Oxford, England: Historical Collections Group (Past Times), 1995. Illustrated by Color game board and box. First edition. Illustrated Boxed game. 50 by 50cm board. pp. [16] Rules for Play, Game board, 44 Pilgrim Cards, 48 Hazard Cards, 6 playing pawns, 2 dice, 30 tokens, . As New/As New/VG+. Playing pieces unopened in original packaging, board and booklet as new. … Read more about this item

Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1992. Illustrated by b/w maps, line drawings. No. 71 Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History. Red cloth. Square 4to. pp. xxxi, [2], 199. Bibliography, Index. Fine/In like jacket/No price in clear archival cover. Introduction by Bill Holm. (first author accompanied Franz Boas on his 1930 expedition)..

Philadelphia: David McKay, 1933. Illustrated by b/w chess board schemes throughout. Revised edition. (c.1915, 1920). Cloth backed pictorial wraps, red topstain. 12mo. pp. 117, [1], [8] Ads, [2] blank. VG. Overall cover soil, light edgewear and rubbing. Includes new chess code, Mitchell's best games, modern end-games and problems ..

Palo Alto, CA: Klutz Press, 1989. Illustrated by Ed Taber in color. First printing edition. 2 volumes. White Spiral-bound pictorial boards, printed on like boards throughout. 12mo (18.5 x 15.75 cm). pp. 31, [1] Ad; 31, [1] Ad. Near Fine. Only flaws are cleaned remnants of removed rear price stickers. Lacks marbles and jacks, but who doesn't have their… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, September 1909. First edition. Blue cloth, decorated and printed gilt, with rear eps as answer sheet numbered 1-100. 16mo. pp. unpaginated but numbered charades. Good/No jacket. (Ink owner), some filled in answers in pencil, several short page tears and nicks to paste downs, worn caps and corners. (Parlor, Language Arts)..

Chicago: Field Enterprises, Inc. Publishers, 1954. Illustrated by b/w and two color drawings. Second edition. (World Book Encyclopedia) (c.1949). Stapled-wraps pictorial printed covers. 8vo. pp. 72. Near Fine. Unread, clean copy with slight cover toning and one faint corner crease. Twelve issues of quizzers, puzzles and questions for children designed to enhance research skills with the use of their WBE… Read more about this item

Carmel, CA: George Godden Books, 1979. Illustrated by pp.[12] original perforated deck of 40 practice hands (intact). stated 33rd printing edition. error sheet laid in. pictorial wraps. 4to. pp. [12], [2], 121, [5]. Near Fine. Faint corner creases, small red offset stain on rear..

New York: Taplinger Publishing, 1973. Illustrated by Paul McMaster and Lou Vermeer b/w photos. Stated First edition. Quarter boards. 8vo. pp. 128. Index. Near Fine/VG/Unclipped price in clear archival cover. (clipped ep to remove address label), several short tears to dj. Classic kid's crafts using simple everyday findings..

London: Pierrot Publishing Ltd, (1976). Illustrated by Alex Vining Design, color. First edition. Pictorial wraps. Square 4to. pp. 120. VG/Unclipped price (rear cover). Light edgewear and rubbing to covers, scuff mark to rear (as if a removed price sticker)..

New York: Hart Publishing, 1974. Illustrated by b&w figures. First edition. Green cloth. 8vo. pp. xix, 429. Near Fine/VG/Clipped price in clear archival cover. Edgewear, closed tear, slightly sunned..