Hoyle's Games: Containing the Established Rules and Practice of Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Quinze, Vingt-un, Cassino, Put, All Fours, Pope Joan, Thirty-One, Brag, Commerce Earl of Coventry, Lanquenet, Loo, Ecarte, Cribbage, Five and Ten, Pharo, Rouge et Noir, Matrimony, Euchre, Poker, or Bluff, Reversis, Connexions, Speculation, Snip, Snap, Snor 'Em, Boaston, Catch the Ten, Commit, Lift Smoke, Lottery, Chess, Back-Gammon, Draughts, Hazard, Domino, Cricket, Billiards, Tennis, Goff or Golf, Horse-Racing, Cocking, Twenty-Deck Poker, Eo, Archery, Bowls, &c
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1869. Hardcover. Very Good. J. B. Lippincott Co., 1869; later printing of 1838 American edition; viii, 277pp. Descriptions of over 45 games. Small hardcover, 12.5cm x 8cm, in brown cloth binding with gilt title on backstrip. Bookseller tag on front paste-down (Burnton & Corey, NYC). Binding is sturdy and fuly intact; light wear to edges of boards, backstrip toned, gilt titling mostly legible; previous owner fountain pen inscription on front end page, text very good. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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- The Book House in Dinkytown (US)
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- 314724
- Title
- Hoyle's Games: Containing the Established Rules and Practice of Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Quinze, Vingt-un, Cassino, Put, All Fours, Pope Joan, Thirty-One, Brag, Commerce Earl of Coventry, Lanquenet, Loo, Ecarte, Cribbage, Five and Ten, Pharo, Rouge et Noir, Matrimony, Euchre, Poker, or Bluff, Reversis, Connexions, Speculation, Snip, Snap, Snor 'Em, Boaston, Catch the Ten, Commit, Lift Smoke, Lottery, Chess, Back-Gammon, Draughts, Hazard, Domino, Cricket, Billiards, Tennis, Goff or Golf, Horse-Racing, Cocking, Twenty-Deck Poker, Eo, Archery, Bowls, &c
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- J. B. Lippincott Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia, PA
- Date Published
- 1869
- Weight
- 0.75 lbs
- Keywords
- stre15
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