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Price: $25.00
Publisher: Baltimore, MD, Avalon Hill Game Company: 1982
Seller ID: A33825
Condition: Very Good+
Color Illustrations; This is a boxed game: The Legend of Robin Hood by the Avalon Hill Game Company and comes complete, with box. The box is in Very Good+ condition, the contents are clean, bright and unpunched. The game is generally for two person play (though groups might play as two opposing forces). "Each player, in the course of the game, can recruit other personalities (leaders) and units of fighting men. The Sheriff Player must attempt to maintain law and orde by ensuring the collection of taxes and the safe travel of the rich through Sherwood Forest. Robin Hood must build up a band... View more info
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Columbus, OH, Cotton Printing Co.: 1948
Edition: 1st Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: A36231
Condition: Very Good
This is a small format booklet with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The book is in Very Good condition. The covers have some light bumping and rubbing, along with beginning wrinkling to the top front edge. The text pages are clean and bright. "The first aim of the system is to enable average bridge players, as well as experts, to properly handle part score hands only, the close game hands, and to sense slam hands from the first bids made. The second aim is to eliminate guess situationsin offensive bidding. The third aim is to eliminate disastrous penalties in defensive bidding." View more info
Price: $40.00
Publisher: New York, New York Consoliated Card Company: 1916
Edition: 1st Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: A35594
Condition: Very Good
This is a small format pamphlet with decorated paper covers and a string tied and stapled spine. The pamphlet is in Very Good condition. There is some bumping and edge wear to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are mostly clean and bright. The text has some light creasing. Written by a later relative of the original founder (Lewis Cohen) , the book gives a general history of cards and card games in India (Hindostan) , their spread throughout Asia and Europe, and then to America. "The New York Consolidated Card Company was formed in 1871 by the merging of three ea... View more info
By: Foster, R . F.
Price: $75.00
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and Company: 1924
Edition: 1st Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: A36246
Condition: Very Good+
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking the dust jacket. The book is in generally clean, bright condition. The covers have some ground-in dirt. The text pages are clean and bright. Laid-in is a copy of the Mah Jong Score Card (also by Foster). "Mahjong is a tile-based game which was developed in China in the Qing dynasty and has spread throughout the world since the early 20th century. It is commonly played by four players (with some three-player variations found in South Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia). The game and its regional variants are widely played t... View more info
By: Fujino, Alison and Benjamin Ruhe
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, PA, Running Press: 1989
Edition: 1st Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: A36360
Condition: Very Good+
B&W Photographs; This edition is an oblong paperback. This book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. "Dual line kites have been around for a surprisingly long time. Possibly the first recorded 2-liner was made and flown by a Swiss man, Dr. Colladon, in the mid 1800's. His steerable kites were apparently based on the arch-top single liner which was popular at the time. Have you seen old illustrations featuring a diamond-like design with a curved top edge? That's the arc... View more info
By: Grant, Audrey and Eric Rodwell (with An Introduction by Easley Blackwood)
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Arco Publishing Inc.: 1984
Edition: 1st Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: A32675
Condition: Near Fine in Fine dust jacket
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some rubbing and bumping. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is clean and bright. "The Joy of Bridge is not just another instructional book about bridge. The Joy of Bridge is a revolutionary new system for learning and playing the world's most popular card game." View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Brisbane, CA, Nichibo Shuppan-Sha: 1986
Edition: 7th Printing
Seller ID: A33045
Condition: Near Fine
B&W Illustrations; This is a trade paperback book. The book is in Near Fine condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. "Hanafuda are playing cards of Japanese origin that are used to play a number of games. The name literally translates as "flower cards". The name also refers to games played with those cards...In 1549, the 18th year of Tenbun, a missionary Francis Xavier landed in Japan and the crew of his ship had carried a set of 48 Portuguese Hombre playing cards from Europe, and eventually card games became popular,... View more info
By: Spayth, Henry
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Dick & Fitzgerald, Publishers: 1866
Edition: 1st Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: A38778
Condition: Good
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The covers have fading and wear, especially to the spine joints and edges. There are several patches of missing cloth, mostly to the front cover. The text pages are clean and mostly bright. There is an ink stamped previous owner's name on the front endpaper, rear endpaper and title page. The reverse of the front endpaper and first free pages have spots of toning. "Draughts (British English) or checkers (American English) is a gro... View more info
