Afro-centric xwordz & puzzlez; crosswords & puzzles based on African American history & culture, volume 1, issue 1
Mililani, HI: Kane Publications, 1998. Magazine. 84p., wraps. Various word games, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 106411
Mililani, HI: Kane Publications, 1998. Magazine. 84p., wraps. Various word games, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 106411
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
San Francisco: R.J. Waters, [1900]. Cards. Fifty two cards plus a joker, 2.5x3.5 inches each, with the state seal and an illustration of California poppies on the rear, some light edgewear, a few pencil marks on the joker, else very good condition in a worn two-part box with gilt titling;..... More
Cat.No: 283368
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: N.D.P. Corp. 1994. Paperback. 95p., coated paperstock throughout (alkaline, tinted cream), every page printed with red panelling around the splendid black typography; 8.5x5.5 inch wraps; a respectful and handsome production in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 171642
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
Paris: Printed by E. Desfosses-Neogravure [for the state], 1936, 1949. Pamphlet. Respectively [35] and [25]p., both items are 10x8 inch pamphlets, staplebound. The 1936 piece is illustrated in b&w with facsimiles of documents establishing the game and remarkably clear small photogravures from various periods; somewhat handled and dusty with a...... More
Cat.No: 223480
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
Philadelphia: Quirk Books, 2006. Hardcover. 192p. hardcover in dust jacket, 7.75x10.75 inches, very good. Illustrated profusely with color reproductions of various erotic playing cards and decks. More
Cat.No: 279342
San Francisco: the newspaper, 1987. Single issue of the tabloid format newspaper, evenly toned, otherwise very good, 23 pages. Published by associates of the Kerista commune, with articles reflecting the polyfidelic sexual aspect of the group as well as issues like self-esteem. Centerfold is the Gestalt-O-Rama board game. More
Cat.No: 199860
Rohnert Park, CA: Pomegranate, [199-?]. Full deck of cards (photos from the Library of Congress on one side, facts about them on the other side), 3.5x4 inches, in pictorial box. The cards are still shrink-wrapped. More
Cat.No: 231721
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
no place: Self-published by the author, no date (circa 1985). Paperback. 73p., text reproduced from typescript, neat but not professional work, softbound in 11x8.5 inch copyshop binding (plastic comb over heavy flexible sheets), a perfectly sound clean copy. More
Cat.No: 263229
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
Las Vegas, NV: Gambler's Book Club, n.d. 17p., red plastic comb binding cracked in the middle, 5.5x8.5 inches. Reprint of an 1891 article, with a new two-page introduction. More
Cat.No: 253879
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
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992. Paperback. xxviii, 561p., coated paper throughout, a plethora of b&w plates and musical notation, includes a colorphoto section painted by Eagle Shield. Softbound in 9x6 inch gloss-black wraps decorated with a modernist picture. Covers slightly curled, fore edge faintly soiled, remainder stroke in inkpen..... More
Cat.No: 294524
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
Oahu: United States Army, [mid-1950s to early 60s]. Pamphlet. Single cardstock leaf, 7x4 inches, printed in blue and red inks and folded (once) to make a scorecard with rules of play; mildly edgeworn with corner-tip crumple-lines and faintest touch of dust. Quite a nice look to this, and it has..... More
Cat.No: 232880
[San Francisco]: Self-published by the author, 1971. Pamphlet. 69p., 5.5x8.5 inches, staplebound booklet in stapled pictorial wraps, inscribed by the author to "Bro. Peter, whose rap is better than his chess game." The author constructed crossword puzzles for Essence, and his shaped or "concrete" poems reflect this aptitude. More
Cat.No: 142264
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
Amsterdam: SAD-Schorerstiching, no date. 36p., 4.25x5.75 inches, text in Dutch, illustrated with drawings and photos, very good booklet in stapled yellow pictorial wraps. A Dutch sex/info game with questions, answers, removalble stamp question cards, AIDS and sex-info resources and services,very good. More
Cat.No: 224411
Houston TX: Privately printed by the Rein Company, Houston, for the anonymous author [Hill], November 1930. Hardcover. 35p., hand-set presswork on watermarked Strathmore, thick alkaline paperstock, sewn signatures in untrimmed textblock. An expensive jest underwritten with Texan largesse; 7x5 inch boards papered in laid-lined terra cotta, provided with a hand-set..... More
Cat.No: 291178