[France]: [Unknown publisher], [c. 1840-1880]. A suggestive set of translucent erotic playing cards likely created in France in the mid-19th century. Set consists of 35 hand-colored playing cards, 32 of which are from around 1840, featuring 11 court cards (3.25 x 2.25"), and three slightly larger cards (3.5 x 2.5")..... More
New York: Simulations Publications, Inc., 1977. First edition. [vi], 186 pp. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in silver, brown endpapers. Fine in Very Good dust jacket with spine panel red lettering mostly gone, wear at extremities, rubbed. A rare history and explanation of wargaming published by the magazine Strategy & Tactics..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1886. True first edition, the extremely rare suppressed issue. Bound in publisher's original red cloth lettered in gilt; with original envelope containing the playing board and all nine of the original grey (5) and red (4) counters. Near Fine with subtle repairs to spine ends, light..... More
Liverpool: E. & I. Gregson, [ca. 1815]. A unique anonymous collection of 69 handwritten puzzles, conundrums, and riddles, some in verse, filling approximately 30 pages of a blank notebook from the early part of the 19th century. The first conundrum references cookbook author Elizabeth Raffald and begins: "Tell me my..... More
London: Museum Press Limited, 1959. First British edition, first printing. Signed by Bobby Fischer on the front free endpaper. xix, 97 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Near Fine with slightly bowed boards, dust-soiling to upper edge of text block. In a Near Fine unclipped..... More
New York: Basic Systems Incorporated, 1966. First edition, first printing. Signed by Bobby Fischer on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's printed laminated boards, lacking a dust jacket. Near Fine with toning to covers and pages, spine sunned, wear to laminate at spine joints and short superficial split at..... More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1934. First edition. 320 pp. + 16 blank perforated sheets of tracing paper at rear (one detached and laid in). Bound in publisher's red and black cloth with black spine lettering; lacking dust jacket. Very Good with sunning to spine, light wear and soiling to cloth..... More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1934. First edition. 320 pp. + 16 blank perforated sheets of tracing paper at rear. Bound in publisher's red and black cloth with black spine lettering; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good+ with light lean and sunning to spine, slight bowing to boards, and light wear..... More
New York, NY: Class Struggle, Inc., 1978. Original Class Struggle board game, an early edition but not the first. Housed in a large cardboard box, 10.5” x 20.5”, featuring a photomontage of Nelson Rockefeller and Karl Marx arm-wrestling. Components complete and include: *1 20” square folding mapboard, divided into 84..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1959. First edition. 214 , (1) pp. Original red cloth and gray paper covered boards, spine stamped in gilt. Very Good+ with bumped corners in edge-chipped and lightly soiled dust jacket, two mends on verso, and yet unsunned and unclipped, Good+. The inspiration for the..... More
London: Michael Joseph, 1960. Uncorrected proof of the first British edition. 190 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. About Very Good with cocked and slightly rolled spine, light wear to extremities, bumped corners, toned with age, former owner's name on half-title. The scarce UK advance issue of pool-sharking novel that inspired..... More
New York: Arco Publishing Company, Inc., 1964. First edition. Signed by chess legend Bobby Fischer on the front free endpaper in blue ink, " R. Fischer 10 May 64 at 2 pm Harvard Club." 218 pp, with four pages of b/w photos. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with spine lettered..... More