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

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. Very Good/missing original glassine/In mylar protector. 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. Very Good/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: Dick & Fitzgerald Publishers, 1895. Illustrated by numerous diagrams and engravings. Stated 15th edition. c.1864, 1880, 1886, 1892. Cloth backed identical green decorated boards. Foolscap 8vo. pp. viii, 520, [16] Ads. Very Good/No jacket, as issued. Rubbed edgeworn boards, cracked hinges, pencil owner..

U.S.A: Perfect Picture Puzzle No. 250 , (ca. 1940). (Interlocking, over 375 pieces). Color pictorial cardboard box housing large thick puzzle pieces (white on reverse). Card Table Size: 19.5 x 15.5 inches. Fine/Near Fine. Pieces fine and complete, Box has light edge wear and one corner chip with the WWII buy US Savings Bond Stamp on right top. Pictures The… 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. Very Good. 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,… Read more about this item

New York: Workman Publishing, 1983. Illustrated by Carl Muller. First edition. Spiral flip boards. Oblong 8vo. pp. [10]. Near Fine. Four games/rules: Classic Thumb, Thumb's Revenge, Power Thumb and Thumbs Away! Two thumb holes throughout. ISBN: 0894803638..

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

Cincinnati, Ohio: United States Playing Card Co, (1940). Illustrated by several line drawings and charts. Stated 38th Publisher edition. c.1744, c.1887 as card games. Pictorial stitched wraps. 16mo. pp. 253, [3] blank. Technical terms. VG+. Small cover stain and overall toning. Has Laws of Duplicate Contract Bridge 1935 Revision including party, progressive, pivot and auction..

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 mylar. 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 ..

U.S.A: , (ca. 1940). (Interlocking, over 375 pieces). Color pictorial cardboard box housing large thick puzzle pieces (wood grain on reverse). Card Table Size: 19.5 x 15.5 inches. Fine/Near Fine. Pieces fine and complete, box has light edge wear and one corner chip with the WWII buy US Savings Bond Stamp on right top. Pictures (the following three… Read more about this item

U.S.A: Perfect Picture Puzzle No. 25, (ca. 1940). (Interlocking, over 375 pieces). Color pictorial cardboard box housing large thick puzzle pieces (wood grain on reverse). Card Table Size: 19.5 x 15.5 inches. Fine/Near Fine. Pieces fine and complete, Box has light edge wear with the WWII buy US Savings Bond Stamp on right top. Pictures two boys on a aged… Read more about this item

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

U.S.A: Perfect Picture Puzzle No. 250, (ca. 1940). (Interlocking, over 375 pieces). Color pictorial cardboard box housing large puzzle pieces (blue on reverse). Card Table Size: 19.5 x 15.5 inches. Fine/Near Fine. Pieces fine and complete, Box has light edge wear and some soil. Pictures a cowboy on horse (with ears back) galloping away facing left running parallel to… Read more about this item