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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

Blackbridge, John.

The Complete Poker-Player.

New York: Dick & Fitzgerald Publishers, [1880]. Second edition, later printing. One of the Earliest Poker Manuals. A fine copy of 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: $1,850

(Blocks).

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

(Blocks).

One set No. O Child's Delight Building Blocks. In fitted wooden box with sliding lid (defective) with printed paper label...

np: nd c. 1875. Read More

Price: $200

(Bridge) Robertson, Edmund & A. Hyde-Wollaston.

Bridge Developments.

New York: Brentano's, 1904. First Edition. Edmund Robertson published this high-card point-count here in 1904. Read More

Price: $250

(Bridge).

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

(Cards) Van Rennsselaer, Mrs John King.

The Devil's Picture-Books. A History of Playing-Cards.

New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1893. Second edition. Read More

Price: $300

(Cards) Van Rennsselaer, Mrs John King.

The Devil's Picture-Books. A History of Playing-Cards.

New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1893. Second edition. Read More

Price: $300

(CARDS).

Album containing a collection of Prints and autographs on the playing card.

np. A finely bound album containing prints, autographs, and clipping concerning playing cards. Includes an autograph letter by Shakespeare scholar and card game historian Samuel Weller Singer, as well as an assortment of 18th- and 19th-century prints. Read More

Price: $900

(cards).

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

(Chess) Lewis, William.

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

(Chess) Liddell, Donald M.

Chessmen with the Collaboration of Gustavus A. Pfeiffer and J. Maunoury.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1937. First edition. Read More

Price: $200

(Chess).

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

(Chess).

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

Coppard, A.E.

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 Goldeb Ciockreal Press, [1932]. First edition, Number 38 of 250 copies, signed by Gibbings and Coppard on dedication page. Read More

Price: $300

Culin, Stewart.

Chess and Playing Cards ….

Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1898. First edition. Read More

Price: $250

Dick, William Brisbane.

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

(Football, Game).

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

(Fore-edge) Beckford, Peter.

Thoughts on Hunting in a Series of Familiar Letters to a Friend.

London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, [1820]. Double-Fore-Edge of Falconry and Hunting. With double fore-edges 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

(Gambling) Grant, James.

Sketches in London.

London: W.S. Orr., Paternoster Row, 1838. Browne, Hablot K. First Edition. With chapters on gaming houses, lunatic asylums, workhouses, penny theatres, poor laws & begging impostersChapter 1, Part 1 Begging Impostors; Chapter 1, Part 2 - Begging Impostors; Chapter 2 - Debtors Prisons; Chapter 3 - The Lumber Troop; Chapter... Read More

Price: $275

(Gambling) [Sharpe, Richard Scrafton].

Theodore; or, the Gamester's Progress. A Poetic Tale.

London: T. Maiden, 1802. Subsequent to the first edition of 1799. The Evils of Gambling! The fatal throw of dice, the dreadful snare of cards--a story of sin and redemption to tug at the reader's very heartstrings. Read More

Price: $250