Berkeley: npub, 1977. 8.5x11 inch handbill with instructions for some kind of live action role play involving a fictional group - the Zahrain Liberation Front - with the objective to patrol an area near Lake Berryessa. It appears to have been given to UC Berkeley Cadets in the ROTC. Minor..... More
Cat.No: 339537
Austin, TX: Steve Jackson Games, 1988. 48p., staplebound booklet format, mild handling wear. Publication for fans of the "Car Wars" game, set in a dystopian future where customized armored attack vehicles protect their drivers from marauding bandits on the open highway. More
Cat.No: 235689
San Francisco: Bonhams & Butterfield, 2006. Paperback. 57p., featuring items no.400-916, exhibit photos entirely in color, 10.5x8 inch glossy catalogue wraps. A very good, undamaged and unmarked copy. More
Cat.No: 232131
Hong Kong: Yee Woo Cheong, n.d. Pamphlet. 22p. pamphlet, covers rather foxed, faint musty scent. Not found in OCLC as of June 2023. A manual for playing mah-jongg, undated but probably issued during the game's 1920s boom in popularity in the US, and perhaps reprinted for some time afterwards. The..... More
Cat.No: 305529
Washington DC: GPO, 1951. Pamphlet. Translated from English-language original(s): 74p., profuse line-drawn illustrations for the adult tinkerer, softbound, a pamphlet in 9x6 inch plain printed green wraps, mild edgewear, mild toning to text-block, a good to very good copy. Perhaps influenced by diplomatic recognition of the Franco regime; the other..... More
Cat.No: 287397
New York: Professional Sports Publications, 1975. Magazine. 84p., magazine in 11x8 inch slick-paper format, b&w and color photography throughout plus tables and a multitude of advertisements. Color wraps are detached from the stapled textblock with slight misfolding to front cover along the spinefold, leaving small holes which staples left; textblock..... More
Cat.No: 317219
[Martinsbille, IN]: Helaine Victoria Press, [1981]. 8.5x11 inch print on handmade cotton paper, numbered 19 of 79. Minor foxing, very good. The first edition appeared in 1981, according to “Women Making History,” p. 377. The Helaine Victoria Press, which took its name from the middle names of founders Jocelyn Helaine..... More
Cat.No: 326757
Vitoria (Espana): Editores: Heraclio Fournier, 1952. Paperback. 120p., each page panelled in blue, line-drawn illustrations of cards and "hands;" softbound in 5.5x4 inch color-decorated wraps, spine and overlapping edges a bit worn, mild dust-soil and faint foxing to endsheets, a good copy. More
Cat.No: 207532
New York: Long Sang Ti Chinese Curios Co., Inc., 1923. 44p. staplebound booklet, endpapers toned, some general handling wear. Fourth edition. More
Cat.No: 323941
Lithonia, Georgia: Magic Masters, [1997]. 9p., 8.5x5.5 inch staplebound pamphlet; illustrations, in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 336041
San Francisco: n.pub. n.d. Single legal-size sheet, creased from folding, some crinkling. Handbill explaining a piece of street theater-- participants were playing Monopoly in front of financial district banks instead of voting, "Because power's here, and power's going to remain here regardless of what happens at the polls today." Links..... More
Cat.No: 145051
Gainesville, FL: American Dialect Society, 1955. Pamphlet. 61, [3] pages, staplebound pamphlet. Slight discoloration to front cover. Good. The first two papers are on the specialized vocabularies used by children playing the game of marbles--includes an extensive list of words with brief etymological notes and definitions (several sourced from published..... More
Cat.No: 336609
San Francisco: Rodan, 1971. Newspaper. 12p. tabloid format newspaper, horizontal fold, otherwise very good. Cover shows the Peace monument in SF's Little Tokyo. Centerfold is a game board with paths to "success" for various Asian immigrant groups and US-born citizens. More
Cat.No: 286087
New York: Philosophical Library, 1954. Hardcover. First American edition: 144p., illustrated with many b&w vignettes and cuts, hardbound in pale orange cloth boards gilt and a colorphoto dust jacket. Book itself is sound and square but pervasively splotched with foxing, the dust jacket too, which is also edgeworn. A good..... More
Cat.No: 297159
Paris: Imprimerie Desfosses-Neogravure, 1945. Pamphlet. [32]p., illustrations, wraps. 10.25x8.25 in. Copy 132 of 300. Very Good. Overview of caricatures depicting lotteries. More
Cat.No: 328581
New York: The World Federation, 1943. 64p., maps, very good condition in a shelf worn dj. Distributed by Garden City Publishing Co. Culbertson was the leading contract bridge player and writer in the 1930s. Dj blurb by Max Eastman. More
Cat.No: 104213
Chicago: F.G. Browne & Co., 1913. Hardcover. 359p., color frontis in good shape, first edition in red cloth boards lettered white and enclosed in the dust jacket. General good condition but spine lettering has almost entirely flaked away, while cover lettering has no damage at all. Book itself is bright..... More
Cat.No: 265305
Ulaanbaatar: Sukhbaataryn nermzhit khevleliin kombinat, 1963. Pamphlet. 55p., illustrated wraps, text in Mongolian, pages curled in upper right corner. Ownership signature inside front cover. Booklet on children's games and playground equipment, with each textual entry facing a page with a line drawing of the equipment or the activity described. More
Cat.No: 165906
Berlin: Siegfried Engelhardt Verlag, 1953. Paperback. 112p. including publisher's menu at terminus, illustrated only with the standard board abstracts in vignette. Instructor's forward is datelined Amsterdam. Softbound in 8.2x6 inch yapp-edged wraps decorated in dark brown. Coverstock and text leaves are somewhat acidic and mildly toned, covers dusty and smudged..... More
Cat.No: 312903
Berlin: Siegfried Engelhardt Verlag, 1956. Paperback. 152p., illustrated only with the standard board abstracts in vignette, instructor's forward datelined Amsterdam, softbound in 8.2x6 inch yapp-edged wraps decorated in purple, both coverstock and text leaves are of acidic stuff and quite toned (not yet fragile), covers dusty with smudges of several..... More
Cat.No: 312896
Berkeley: Author as Eupsychia, 1973 (or following year). Pamphlet. 12p., softbound in 8x5 inch plainish yellow wraps, text reproduced from a keyboard-set mss. Three "game" cards in a rear pocket as called for (per text). Staples are slightly rusted with a touch of migration, covers are a little dust-soiled and..... More
Cat.No: 314735
Tokyo: Nihon Kiin 日本棋院, 1965. 222p., wraps, very good in plastic sleeve. Text in Japanese with numerous illustrations of positions. Nihon Kiin No Chukyu Shirizu, 6. Go player's manual. More
Cat.No: 153754
Tulsa, OK: Montandon Magic, 1949. Pamphlet. 34 pages, staplebound pamphlet. Mild age toning to edges of cover, otherwise Very Good. Book of magic tricks and gags to entertain friends. More
Cat.No: 339887
Tokyo: Nihon Kiin 日本棋院, 1965. 238p., wraps, very good in plastic sleeve. Text in Japanese with numerous illustrations of positions. Nihon Kiin No Chukyu Shirizu, 4. Go player's manual. More
Cat.No: 153752
Oakland: Sea Urchin Press, 1978. Paperback. [32]p., illus. in text; lightly worn else very good condition. Laid in is a 4p. "Activity guide for Agate Eyes for involved reading and listening." Children's book on interpersonal relations built around a game of marbles in a black neighborhood. More
Cat.No: 241224
