Catch That Cat! A Picture Book of Rhymes and Puzzles
NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1990). Stated First American Edition; 4to.; glossy pictorial boards; very good in a very good dust jacket. More
Games and Puzzles
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A Third Century of Charades
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1904. First edition; 12mo.; pictorial cloth covered boards, hardcover; decorative paper label on cover and spine; a very good clean, tight copy. More
Original Acrostics on Some of the States And Presidents of the United States, and Various Other Subjects, Religious, Political and Personal
NY: Published for the Author, 1871. 12 mo brown cloth cover with gilt embossing, small hardcover; 108 pages; 50 engravings; edgeworn and faded binding, tmissing first free endpaper, fsome foxing and dusty edges elsea clean tight copy. More
Games for Children Little and Big.
NY: Barse & Hopkins (1923). First edition; small 12mo., cloth; small bleach spot on front cover else a very good, clean, tight copy. More
Great To-Do Number 2 A generation -jumping entertainment. Capers for cutting, coloring, and carrying on.
NY: Harlin Quist (1972). A Jamboree Book; 4to., stiff pictorial wraps, solfcover; black & white and color illustrations; lightly edgeworn else a very good clean tight copy. More
Fun For Juniors
NY: Platt & Munk (1941). 8vo. rubbed red pictorial boards; games, mazes, stunts, puzzles, riddles, questions and dot drawings; none of the puzzles, dot drawings or mazes have been done; very good in stained and chipped dust jacket with several large closed tears and two inches missing from upper spine..... More
Fun-Time Stunts
no place: The Platt & Munk Co., Inc., 1937. 8vo; stapled stiff pictorial covers; softcover; color and black and white illustrations; No. 3500H; includes: shadow pictures and a hole in your hand; lightly rubbed else a very good tight copy. More
Patience: A Series of Thirty Games with Cards
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1870. 32mo; decorative gilt cloth covered boards; hardcover; 96 pages; black and white illustrations; games using decks of cards; non-authorial inscription; soiled and edgeworn covers else a very good tight copy. More
The Mary Dawson Game Book: A Manual of Original Games and Guessing Contests for Entertainments of Every Description and For All Ages
Philadelphia: David McKay, Publisher (1916). 1st edition; 8vo.; blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettering, hardcover; 828 pages; lightly edge-rubbed boards else a very good clean tight copy. More
Games, Stunts, Socials And Parties For Use In School, Church And Community Organizations
Dayton: Paine Publishing Co. (1920). 12mo.; pictorial paper wraps with stapled binding, 197 pages; softcover; some internal pencil and ink markings throughout with back wrap and most of spine missing else very good. More
Games For Every Day
NY: The MacMillan Co., 1940. 12mo.; red cloth covered boards with black illustration of boy and girl, 336 pages; hardcover; black & white and color illustrations by Constance Whittemore; former owner’s name on front free endpaper and lightly rubbed boards in a soiled and chipped and edgeworn dust jacket... More
Hanna-Barbera presents Denny’s The Jetsons Space Travel Fun Book
no place: Denny’s,Inc/Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. 1992. Small 8vo; stiff pictorial covers; softcover; 96 pages; black and white illustrations; No. 1 in a series of 6 books; a very good clean, tight, unmarked copy. More
Creative Activities In Physical Education Correlated And Integrated Games And Dances From Many Countries
NY; A. S. Barnes And Company, 1929. 1st edition; 8vo.; cloth covered boards; b/w drawings by Verne Cole; non authorial inscription on front free endpaper; corners are slightly rubbed else very good. More
Games From Long Ago
NY: Crabtree Publishing Co. (1995). small 4to. stiff pictorial paper wraps, softcover 32 pages; very good clean tight copy with no apparent flaws. More
The Game of Euchre
NY: Frederick A. Stokes & Brother, 1889. 16mo; cloth backed pictorial boards; hardcover; 82 pages; includes: Treatises on French Euchre, Set-Back Euchre, Etc. and Progressive Euchre; lightly sunned and edgeworn covers else a very good clean tight copy. More
Good-Time Games
Boston: United Society Of Christian Endeavor (no date). 16mo.; stiff paper wraps, 40 pages plus advertisements; softcover; contents include: planning successful socials, mixing games, active games, stunts that amuse, and races; former owner’s bookplate on front free endpaper else very good in lightly soiled and edgeworn wraps. More
Batman Baffling Brainteasers
NY: Happy House, Inc. (1983). First Edition; small 4to; stiff stapled pictorial covers; softcover; 48 pages; black and white illustrations; crossword puzzles, word find, and activities--none have been done; edgeworn and lightly rubbed covers with sunned pages else a very good clean tight copy. More
Brandub, An Old Irish Board Game of the 7th Century AD.
NY: The Stone Street Press, 1983. Limited to 500 copies; 8vo. maroon wraps with paper label; softcover; black and white illustrations; signed by McCormick; wooden game board included; very good in a very good slipcase. More
The Star Trek Make-A-Game Book
NY: Wanderer Books (1979). Stated 1st printing with a 1 in the number line; small 4to.; glossy pictorial wraps; softcover; black & white and color illustrations; “punch out, set up and play this exciting new intergalactic space adventure game”; all game pieces intact and unpunched; covers are lightly rubbed and..... More
50 Card Games for Children
Cincinnati, Ohio: The United States Playing Card Co. (1946). small 12mo; stiff pictorial covers; small softcover; 128 pages; black and white illustrations; toned pages else a very good, clean, tight copy. More
Indoor games and amusements : a book of diversions for the young and old
NY: Hurst, 1883. 12mo., tan, brown and orange cloth covered pictorial boards, hardcover; Part 1: Snip, Snap, Snorum. And Nearly One Hundred Other Parlor Games, Such as Juvenile Card-games, Games of Forfeits, Games of Action, Games with Pen and Pencil : Including Many New and All the Old Favorite Amusements..... More
Come to my Party and Wear a Fancy Hat Everything you need for a successful Children’s Party!
West Hartford, CT: Creative Playtime, 1950. Oblong small 4to; pictorial covers with pictorial endpapers; hardcover; color illustrations; crown hats by Ethel Lake; “Games to Play Fancy King and Queen Paper Hats to Wear Place Cards to Decorate the Table Mother Goose Rhymes”; 8 place cards and 8 hats ready to..... More
Youthful Recreations
Dallas: Somesuch Press, 1986. Limited edition, #36 of 175 copies; signed by Susan Acker at the Feathered Serpent Press who this book was designed and printed by; Miniature; blue leather boards with pictorial inset, hardcover; black and white illustrations; a very good clean, tight copy in a very good slipcase..... More
Games and Recreational Methods for Clubs, Camps and Scouts
NY: Dodd, Mead & Company (1931). 12mo., cloth covered boards, hardcover, 469 pages, faded spine and some soil else very good. More
My Book of Outdoor Games
Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Co. (1916). First edition; 8vo; cloth covered boards with colorful pictorial pastedown ; hardcover; 120 pages; pictorial endpapers; black and white illustrations; full page illustrations from photographs loaned by the Chicago Park Commission; edgeworn boards with slightly sunned pages else a very good clean tight copy..... More