Les Entretiens des Cafés de Paris, et les...
Trevoux: E. Ganeau, 1702. First edition. “Trois philosophes, un Aristitotelicien, un Gassendiste & un Cartesien s'etant rencontrez dans... Read More
Price: $1,250
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Academie Universelle des Jeux, contenant les Regles de tous les Jeux.
Amsterdam: Aux Depens de la Compagnie, 1773. Nouvelle edition. Chapters on Billiards, Court Tennis, Chess, Backgammon. Read More
Price: $250
The Complete Poker Player.
New York: Advance Publsihing Co, 1875. First edition. Rare first edition of this foundational work on poker. It is, along with Winterblossom's The Game of Draw Poker (1875), the earliest published work dedicated solely to poker. Blackbridge – described on the title as an attorney, though the name is possibly... Read More
Price: $7,500
The Complete Poker Player.
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1880. Second edition, later issue, with "Poker Principles and Chance Laws" (pp. 143-174) inserted at end. The second edition of this foundational work on poker. The rare first edition of 1875 — with only one copy located on OCLC — is, along with Winterblossom's The... Read More
Price: $1,250
No. 249. Improved Architectural Blocks free from Paint or Other Poisonous Colorings. Wooden Blocks in wooden box with sliding top...
np: R. Bliss Mfg. Co, 1874. Read More
Price: $250
Bridge Developments.
New York: Brentano's, 1904. First Edition. Edmund Robertson published this high-card point-count here in 1904. Read More
Price: $250
The Laws of Bridge as Adopted by the Whist Club: Also the Etiquette of the Game with Hints for Play.
New York: 11 West 36th Street, 1897. First edition. An early bridge rule book, the first appeared in London, 1886. OCLC locates three copies. Read More
Price: $750
The Devil's Picture-Books. A History of Playing-Cards.
New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1893. Second edition. Read More
Price: $300
The Devil's Picture-Books. A History of Playing-Cards.
New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1893. Second edition. Read More
Price: $300
Lavish Boxed Bésique Set
The Rules for Playing the Popular Game, Bésique. TOGETHER WITH AN ELABORATE CASED SET OF FOUR PACKS OF BÉSIQUE CARDS...
London: Joseph Reynolds & Sons, [Ca. 1865]. Lavish Boxed Bésique Set. Accompanying the instruction booklet is an elaborate boxed set of four packs of bésique cards, each accompanied by a movable dial-type marker/scorer, the whole set into separate compartments in a purple moire silk-lined gilt bronze-trimmed box of a honey-colored... Read More
Price: $1,250
Elements of the Game of Chess, or a New Method of Instruction in that Celebrated Game...Revised and Corrected by an...
New York: G. and C. Carvill, 1827. First American edition. The tenth American chess book. The first English edition of this work appeared in 1822. Read More
Price: $250
Chessmen with the Collaboration of Gustavus A. Pfeiffer and J. Maunoury.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1937. First edition. Read More
Price: $200
![The Chess Journal: Devoted to the Interests of Caissa. No. 1 August 1870; No. II, August 15th, 1870; No 3, September 1st, 1870 Volume I [Second edition]; No. IV, September 15th 1870; No. V. October 1st, 1870; No. 6 October 15th, 1870 [Second edition]; No. VII November 1st 1870; No. VIII November 15th 1870. Chess.](/pictures/thumb/35285.jpg?v=1534804234)
With Photograph
The Chess Journal: Devoted to the Interests of Caissa. No. 1 August 1870; No. II, August 15th, 1870; No 3...
Dubuque, Iowa: O. A. Bronson Jr, 1871. With Photograph. First volume of this chess journal. The early volumes were called “Dubuque Chess Journal” and “Brownson's Chess Journal,” then in 1876 the title was changed to “The American Chess Journal ”and then in 1877 returned to “Chess Journal.”¶ The portrait photograph... Read More
Price: $900
BOARDS, UNCUT
An Easy Introduction to the Game of Chess; containing One Hundred Examples of Games, and a Great Variety of Critical...
London: Printed for Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1820. A New Edition Carefully Revised. BOARDS, UNCUT. Contains Sir William Jones' poem “Caissa: or The Game of Chess. A Poem.” Based upon Pratt's “Studies of Chess”. Read More
Price: $350
Rummy That Noble Game Expounded In Prose, Poetry, Diagram And Engraving By A.E. Coppard And Robert Gibbings With An Account...
Waltham Saint Lawrence Berkshire: The Golden Cockerel Press, [1932]. First edition, Number 38 of 250 copies, signed by Gibbings and Coppard on dedication page. Read More
Price: $300
Chess and Playing Cards ….
Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1898. First edition. Read More
Price: $250
Dick's parlor exhibitions containing a large and varied collection of elegant home amusements ... With complete text and detailed directions...
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, c. 1882. Read More
Price: $150
Game "Intercollegiate Football" Tin chromolithographic top in green, red, blue, yellow. Spring loaded dial to determine movement of plays. Directions...
Sterling, Illinois: Hustler Toy Corporation, c. 1930. Read More
Price: $500
Double-Fore-Edge Painting of Falconry and Hunting
Thoughts on Hunting in a Series of Familiar Letters to a Friend.
London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, [1820]. Double-Fore-Edge Painting of Falconry and Hunting. With double fore-edge paintings of two hunting scenes, one of three horsemen hunting with falcons, the other with hunters taking a fence after the dogs. Read More
Price: $1,600
NRA Game of Prosperity. The Nation's Most Fascinating Game. Officially Approved by the NRA.
New York: R.T.A. Company. Read More
Price: $150
Peter Coddle's Trip to New York. 213 cards. The cover of the 30-page story book reads, "Peter Coddle's Trip to...
Boston, Mass: Gould & Lincoln 59 Washington Street, 1858. " As early as the late 1800s, a form of "game" (but more accurately a general amusement, as it lacks a scoring methodology and a winner) was offered in the form of a long story containing blanks, and accompanied by dozens... Read More
Price: $400
Game: Folding Board game "Bicycle Race and Skating Rink. Five Games in One."
c. 1890. Read More
Price: $850
Game: "Racing Game" in black cloth covered wooden box with red label on lid stamped in gold showing 2 horses...
np: nd. c. 1890. Read More
Price: $450
Game: "Jeu de Course" in original black wooden box with metal spring loaded handle. 6 Horses (one missing) on circular...
(Paris): M.J. & Cie, c. 1875. Read More
Price: $900
Beautiful Copy
Chess Made Easy: or, The Games of Gioachino Greco, the Calabrian; with Additional Games and Openings, illustrated with Remarks and...
London: J. and P. Knapton ... and W. Standby .. 1750. Second edition. Beautiful Copy. Second edition of this compilation of the games of one of the strongest players of the 17th century, complete with the terminal leaf of errata. Uncommon. Read More
Price: $3,750