Search Results: Games & puzzles from OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994)

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 a deer doing the same as a smoking bush fire begins to cover the landscape in back of them..

Garden City: Doubleday & Co. (Rutledge), (1967). Edited by Richard L. Frey. Illustrated by b&w figures and drawings. Later edition. Red cloth. 8vo. pp. 221. VG+/Good/Unclipped price in mylar. Edgewear about caps and corners in jacket with overall soil, small stains, shallow chipping and several short tears. Including extracts from the laws of bridge point count at a glance quizzes. Sections headed by author..

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 bowed tree hanging over a pond, one boy has his right arm up calling with his little dog behind him as the other boy raises a rope with a watermelon that they have just pulled out of the pond for cooling, assisted by a boy in the pond lifting the large melon from below..

Opa-Locka, FL: Clayton, Inc, 1974. Illustrated by b/w cover cartoon, 10 text examples. Assumed first edition. Stapled pamphlet. 16mo. pp. [ii], 22. VG+. Edge yellowing to cover. Criss-cross, Vertical N, Sweepstakes and Four Corner..

Carmel, CA: George Godden Books, 1979. Illustrated by pp.[12] original perforated deck of 40 practice hands (intact). stated 33rd printing edition. error sheet laid in. pictorial wraps. 4to. pp. [12], [2], 121, [5]. Near Fine. Faint corner creases, small red offset stain on rear..

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..

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..

U.S.A: Perfect Picture Puzzle No. 25, (ca. 1940). Illustrated by A. Cucchi. (Interlocking, over 375 pieces). Color pictorial cardboard box housing large thick 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 one corner chip. Pictures a boy in a field of flowers with his toy gun beside him, holding his endearing dog's paw to remove some injurious foreign article..

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 carrying fishing poles): a girl in a baseball cap a taller blonde boy in a straw hat, a smaller boy with a can of worms looking at the taller boy, and a rotund boy scout carrying a picnic basket and eating as a little brown dog runs beside them through a hay field on a bright day with clouds in the sky..

New York: Hart Publishing, 1974. Illustrated by b&w figures. First edition. Green cloth. 8vo. pp. xix, 429. Near Fine/VG/Clipped price in mylar. Edgewear, closed tear, slightly sunned..

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. Box is lightly rubbed. Based on the pilgrims in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in Chaucerian English and the Hasard dice game. No prior knowledge necessary (scan of box rear)..

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 Circus and Ring Master, a Clown and female performer playing checkers in a tent as a dog with a clown collar sleeps..

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 fun..

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 fine. List 27 titles and 5 in preparation. "Like Chess, Go is a game of skill - it has been described as being like four Chess games going on together on the same board - but it differs from Chess in many ways. The rules of Go are very simple and though, like Chess, it is a challenge to players' analytical skills, there is far more scope in Go for intuition....As an intellectual challenge Go is extraordinary. The rules are very simple, yet it resists all attempts to program computers to play Go." (British Go Assn)..

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 own? (postage as one book)..

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)..

New York: Taplinger Publishing, 1973. Illustrated by Paul McMaster and Lou Vermeer b/w photos. Stated First edition. Quarter boards. 8vo. pp. 128. Index. Near Fine/VG/Unclipped price in mylar. (clipped ep to remove address label), several short tears to dj. Classic kid's crafts using simple everyday findings..

U.S.A: Perfect Picture Puzzle No. 250, (ca. 1940). (Interlocking, over 375 pieces). Color pictorial cardboard box housing large thick puzzle pieces (tan on reverse). Card Table Size: 19.5 x 15.5 inches. Fine/Near Fine. Pieces fine and complete, Box has light edge wear and two small corner chips. Pictures a thin white haired and bearded ex-sea captain at the beach about to paint his boat, dropping his can of paint as a small boy drops a crab and his little 'RCA' dog, running at a gallop zooms by in the opposite direction..

Chicago: Field Enterprises, Inc. Publishers, 1954. Illustrated by b/w and two color drawings. Second edition. (World Book Encyclopedia) (c.1949). Stapled-wraps pictorial printed covers. 8vo. pp. 72. Near Fine. Unread, clean copy with slight cover toning and one faint corner crease. Twelve issues of quizzers, puzzles and questions for children designed to enhance research skills with the use of their WBE (can be used with any encyclopedia)..

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 Old Working Books & Bindery. Multiplication token game missing two tokens: 2x13=26 (Der Circus; Le Cirque, The Circus) and 2x17=34 (Das Forsthaus; La maison de forestier; The forester's house). Other cards: Grossvaters Beburtstag (La fete de grand-papa; Grandfather's Birthday), Landliches Gluck (Bonhuer champetre; Happy country life), Im Manover (Le manoeuvre, The maneuver), Der Maskenball (Le bal masque, The Masquerade), Die Meierei (La metairie, The Farm), Ruckkehr vom Felde (Retour du champ; return from the field), Sommerfreuden (Plaisirs d'ete, Pleasures in summertime). Original Gebrauchsanweisung (Original… Read More