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19761233081976 Editions du Club du Livre, Philippe Lebaud éditeur - 1976 - Deux volumes, in-folio, une reliure pleine peau de daim, dos à cinq nerfs, avec étiquette de titre "manuscrite" + une reliure demi peau de daim, plats cartonnés, dos à cinq nerfs, avec étiquette de titre "manuscrite", emboitage cartonné avec ourlet de cuir aux ouvertures - Premier tome sans pagination (fac-similé de l'édition originale, texte en ancien français) + 58 pages (textes sur deux colonnes en français moderne) - Très belles reproductions d'illustrations, miniatures, enluminures et lettrines
191520568New York: Kangaroo Corporation; Gray Lith. Co. 1915. A large laughing female kangaroo with a joey in her pouch who says "Be Happy at Home!" to another young kangaroo asking "Why such joy" decorates the triangular box lid of this amusing bright orange and purple 1915 peg board game. The playing board itself is framed with the text "You can't be blue if you KANGAROO. No trouble troubles you."<br /> <br /> The unusual triangular box features three kangaroos on the top lid with edges decorated with horse shoes and shamrocks on a purple ground. The instructions are printed on the under side of the top lid including the offer of a $500 reward. The Kangaroo Corporation offered the prize for any correct solution to the game which involves landing the King in Goal No. 14. "The above prize to be awarded January 15 1916." <br /> <br /> 25 numbered holes on the board with 12 small wooden pegs. The object of the game was to jump holes so that only the King remained in hole number 14 in the manner of Chinese checkers.<br /> <br /> Each side of the triangular box measures 9 1/4". The box printed by Gray Lith. Co. N.Y.;1915 copyright by the Kangaroo Corporation. The top lid with little scratch in the lower edge corners repaired with sticky tape. Previous owner signature verso of lower box. The board interior with color more vivid just a bit of wear around numbered peg holes. Not found on Trove. Kangaroo Corporation; Gray Lith. Co. unknown
195760736Tulare CA 1957. 12mo. 2 volumes: 16 368 32; 16 368 32 pp. with entries on 306 pages of the 1955 diary and 260 pages of the one for 1957 a total of approximately 7500 words unused pages were generally marked "vacation" or "day off"; expenses were noted on the daily entry pages rather than in the separate "accounts" section at the rear; laid into the 1955 diary are three photographs from an arrest. Many of the daily entries are simple statements of areas patrolled but many also report hunting and fishing prospects in the area e.g. "The few anglers that were willing to work for their trout were successful in catching limits in Bear Creek upstream from the Mtn. Home Road. A few newly hatched quail were observed in Yokohl Valley near Milton Fire Station" "Checked 35-40 hunters & no deer" "200 pheasants were released on the Tipton open pheasant area after shooting hours on Nov. 21 and Nov. 22 76 46 males and 30 females of the leg bands were recovered from hunters mostly on the morning of the 22nd. There were about 200 hunters in the area" hunting violations including illegal clam digging at Pismo Beach arrests general observations on the wildlife in the area meetings with other wardens and fish and game officials training etc. An excellent representation of the daily activities of a game warden in Tulare California and its surroundings in the mid-1950s. Well used diaries but the entries quite legible. Gilt- stamped green cloth well worn spine ends frayed and joints split hinges cracked etc. #7978. <br/><br/> hardcover books
19838741<p>Limited to 50 non-commercial copies marked "H.C." Hors Commerce. Complete with 16 loose-as-issued black/white numbered plates housed in a red paper portfolio together with a signed limitation page . All clean copies with no defacements. Scarce.</p><p>12 x 16.25 in 30.5 x 41 cm.</p> Editions Deesse hardcover
19233210241<i>Complete set of 48 cards 93 x 62 mm including 4 'Privilege Cards' marked with a star; folded sheet of rules; contained in the original purple card slipcase 98 x 76 x 25mm illustrated title label.</i><br /><br />A round game based on nonsense names of creatures probably the name The Great Galumphus derived from invention of the word 'galumph' by Lewis Carroll for Through the Looking Glass of 1872. Certainly all the other named creatures whose images decorate the cards are each in the same nonsense fashion and include the Crowned Cornubian Tasselled Snort Hound Bubbling Water-Hog Pushfoot Polliwog Climbing Chumtrunk Painted Pooh-Pooh Cissling Sand-Snapper Hairless Hunkum Flying Umbratunk Long Eared Scootler Scru-Wuzzium Lunar Lumpkin Putty Faced Popcat and Spotted Sniffle-Grub. This is a memory game where the players have to claim cards from their opponents after they have been turned over with a set of cards needed to become the winner.<br /><br />Jaques as a games maker had been established in 1795 however it was John Jaques II in the mid Victorian era who is credited with inventing such perennials as Happy Families Tiddledywinks Ludo and Snakes and Ladders where the company's fame was most in the ascendent. We have not been able to trace Miss Jessie Veal but wonder if she actually lived in some part of the far flung British Empire the animals and exotic scenery tend strongly to support this idea. Published by J. Jaques & Son Ltd.,
1913017791London: Horace Cox 1913. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition First Printing. Pp. vii.282. Adverts. In original green boards tiger in black to front board titling in gilt to front board and spine. All plates 8 and sketch maps complete. The original owner has added some notes and photos throughout none of which affects text or plates. Rubbing to boards light dulling to pages. Scarce. Horace Cox Hardcover
1947118017Thiebaud 1947-1948 4 in-4 Édition établie pour la librairie J. Thiebaud par Plume & Presse, 1947-1948, 4 volumes brochés in-4 de 230x290 mm environ, (3) ff., XXV, 164 pages, (2) ff. - (3) ff., 181 pages, (3) ff. - (3) ff., 164 pages, (4) ff. - (3) ff., 159 pages, (4) ff. Ouvrage tiré à 300 exemplaires sur vélin de Lana (n°286), complet des 5 gravures hors-texte et des nombreux bandeaux, culs-de-lampe, lettrines. Brochés avec couvertures rempliées couleur crème sous chemises titrées assorties, feuillets non coupés (non lus). Emboîtages manquants, les couvertures, tranches et gardes sont piquées mais l'intérieur est frais, bon état général.
193037748Sterling Illinois: Hustler Toy Corporation 1930. Condition almost fine in working order. Hustler Toy Corporation unknown books
1934314085Quebec 1934. Illustrated from photos. 20 pp. 12mo. Green printed wrappers. Spine faintly toned. Fine. Illustrated from photos. 20 pp. 12mo. "The bears are becoming very troublesome."<br/>List of members and club camps and the secretary's annual report for the preceding year with anecdotes of hunting and a request for a dozen new members the membership stood at 89 at the end of 1933. Not in Heller Bruns unknown books
1927ZB369671Sacramento 1927-1956. volumes 9-10 12-15 17-18 21 25-54; partly bound ex library very good; price is for the lot. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Sacramento unknown
19203220195<i>Two-fold chromolithograph playing board measuring approximately 85.5 × 61.5cm 6 metal Locomotive playing pieces 30 counters two shakers a dish and two dice one a later replacement; all contained within the original box 45 x 33cm lid with pictorial scene of a locomotive outside Paris the Eiffel tower visible in the distance with the printed rules pasted to underside of lid some rubbing to extremities but overall in very good original condition.</i><br /><br /><br />A wonderful railway game beautifully illustrated taking players from Paris space 1 on route's through France her neighbours and beyond.<br /><br />The mechanic is roll and move as in the Goose-type games. If you land on a red space you are penalised but landing on green you get some assistance. The publisher reports the game will be most instructive not only for learning about French towns but also about the towns in neighbouring countries.<br /><br />The toy and games maker Saussine were established in 1860 by Léon Saussine after he had acquired the prolific children's bookseller and publishers Hugues-Marie Duru at the rue du Cloitre Saint-Jacques in Paris. Saussine developed the business making board games card games and puzzles but also began producing shadow theatres under the mark 'LS edit Paris'. Like most such enterprises Saussine thought up ideas for his wares and employed various specialist manufacturers in France Belgium and Germany to construct them. After Léon's death in 1896 his widow continued to run the business until her sons George and Maurice were able in their turn to take over the reigns in 1916. They were then succeeded by a grandson of the founder in 1944 the company continued to supply the marketplace until around 1964.<br /> Saussine Ed.
198310879Editions Déesse / WECBA 1983. Grande chemise in-4 au format 40 x 30 cm. Couverture avec titre imprimé en argent et en relief. Contient 16 superbes planches en noir, imprimées sur beau papier, reproduisant 16 dessins inédits en noir de Jack Kirby, Walter Simonson, Jean-Claude Gal, Bob McLeod, John Buscema, John Severin, Paul Gillon, Philippe Caza, Paul Smith, Mike Zeck, Brian Bolland, Yves Chaland, Denis Sire, Howard Chaykin, Gil Kane et Mike Kaluta. Un des 1400 exemplaires sur grand papier Rapsodie vergé de 250 grammes sur un tirage total de 1500 exemplaires. Notre exemplaire n'est pas numéroté mais comporte une reproduction du certificat original, réservé au tirage des 50 hors commerce. Rarissime édition, surtout dans un tel état général de fraicheur.
192017556Lyon, Cumin et Masson, Collection Amis du Vieux Lyon, 1920 ; in-12 carré, demi maroquin rouge à petits coins, dos à nerfs surlignés à froid, fleurons et titre dorés, filets dorés sur les plats, tête dorée, premier plat de couverture conservé (reliure moderne) ; (12), 98 pp. , (1) f. d'imprimeur (Audin).
19381003G22Bath: George Bayntun 1938. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 10" by 8". Not Stated. A scarce first edition copy of this abundantly illustrated account of cock-fighting from the notebooks of Herbert Atkinson with the letters of John Harris. A very scarce work.The first edition.In the publisher's original red cloth binding. With the original price clipped dust wrapper. Illustrated with a coloured frontispiece nine coloured plates and twelve monochrome plates from paintings and drawings by the author. Collated complete.From the note-books of Herbert Atkinson one of the original founders of the Oxford Old English Game Club in 1885.Together with the life and letters of John Harris the Cornish Cocker. Edited with an introductory memoir by Game Cock. In publisher's original cloth binding. In the original price clipped dust wrapper. Externally excellent. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Dust wrapper is smart with sunning and spotting and a closed tear to the head of the front joint and chipping to the head of the spine. Near Fine George Bayntun hardcover
1915218485東京. Tokyo. Circa1915. Very attractive framed glass-topped wooden board depicting the route of the Tōkaidō Railway between Tokyo and Kobe. A metal ball is guided along the printed course with numerous holes into which the ball may fall before reaching the end of the line. The coloured lithographed surface shows key stations and landmarks along the route. 24.4 x 16.4 x 2.7cm presented in its original quite worn cardboard box with title label 25 x 17 x 3.4cm. Original box present though very worn with washi repairs a prior owner's details inside in the lid of the box. The game itself is in excellent bright condition. A charming early 20th-century Japanese tama korogashi ball-rolling or bagatelle-style game combining amusement with geography. These games were popular in the Taishō and early Shōwa eras and represent a forerunner to later mechanical pinball and educational map games. <br> <br>In this hand-held game the player travels from Tokyo to Kobe on the Tokaido Railway line via a small ball which is contained in the box. It is a game of skill with several traps holes which need to be avoided before reaching to the final destination of Kobe. The railway line this game depicts first opened in 1889 between Shinbashi and Kobe and the line was extended to Tokyo Station in 1914. The line which mainly followed the traditional Tokaido Road became the major transportation line in Japan. . unknown
190268475London: Rowland Ward Limited 1902. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 531; 12pp. Large octavo 23 cm Bound in plain red cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Blue and white animal-patterned endpapers. Covers a bit cocked. Text block has dropped. Endpapers cracked along the hinges and hinges going. Text block just starting to crack at p. 177. Bookbinder's small ticket on the rear pastedown. With folding map loose and tucked in with a 10" closed tear along the horizontal center fold. Major Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton 1866-1940 was an explorer big game hunter naturalist and anthropologist and founder of the Quex Museum Birchington the Powell-Cotton Collection. He spent most of his life exploring and traveling throughout the world as well as undertaking multiple overseas collecting expeditions. In total Powell-Cotton undertook 27 expeditions spanning half a century. From the early 1880s he was very much concerned with taking and developing his own photographs.<br /> <br /> Signed by the author's son Christopher on the half title. Rowland Ward, Limited hardcover
191441080London: Rowland Ward and Co. Limited "The Jungle" 166 Piccadilly W. 1914. Seventh edition. Illustrated. 532 4 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original beige cloth pictorial patterned endpapers. Lovely copy. With the publisher's accompanying "Note Book" bound in patterned paper wrappers matching the endpapers laid in. Seventh edition. Illustrated. 532 4 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Rowland Ward and Co., Limited, "The Jungle," 166 Piccadilly, W. unknown books
195018318Monsterbeskyttet: Kaj Kjeldsen No date circa 1950. The game board with an impressive pop-up circus tent featuring Dumbo in the center preparing for his famed “burning building leap†and decorated with colorful characters from the movie. Included game pieces featuring colourful characters and an instruction sheet in Danish. 19 by 19 inches fold-up cardboard game board and a colorful pictorially decorated paper-board box containing the Dumbo playing pieces a die and an instruction sheet. One sheet of playing instructions in Danish. The pop up board is in lovely condition some wear to the small box of playing pieces. A WELL-PRESERVED DISNEY GAME and one featuring one of the studio’s most beloved animal characters. Dumbo is of course the baby elephant who could fly. Although the rules are in Danish the game is fairly simple to figure out and appears to be essentially complete. The main attraction here however is the fabulous pop-up circus scene which serves as a centerpiece to the playing-board. Kaj Kjeldsen] unknown
1990149761990. Higinbotham William A. Signed typescript of Frederic D. Schwartz's 1990 article on the origins of early video games documents the role of a nuclear physicist in the development of interactive electronic entertainment later associated with Pong. Higinbotham a scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory created an oscilloscope-based tennis simulation in 1958 as part of public demonstrations designed to make atomic research accessible and non-threatening during the Cold War. The document situates the origins of video gaming within a government laboratory environment connected to earlier wartime research including instrumentation work linked to the Manhattan Project. The text provides primary evidence of how scientific expertise developed for military and nuclear purposes contributed to the emergence of recreational digital technologies.<br /> <br /> Higinbotham William A. Signed typescript of "Remember Pong" by Frederic D. Schwartz. New York: Invention and Technology Magazine 1990. Three pages signed on page three "Best Wishes William A. Higinbotham Feb. 8 1991." The article opens: "Remember Pong In 1972 it became the first successful video-arcade game. In reality though it was invented in 1958. by a man named William Higinbotham." The text describes Higinbotham's position overseeing instrumentation design at Brookhaven and explains the development of a "tennis game with the court displayed on an oscilloscope's screen." It further notes the institutional context of government employment stating that patent rights would have belonged to the federal government preventing personal ownership of the invention.<br /> <br /> Produced at the end of Higinbotham's life the signed typescript frames early video game history through the perspective of a scientist who had witnessed the first atomic test and later advocated for nonviolence and nuclear restraint. The article connects Cold War scientific culture with the emergence of interactive media emphasizing how technologies designed for warfare and research environments were adapted for public engagement and entertainment. Higinbotham's stated intention to create a nonviolent diversion underscores a countercurrent within late twentieth-century debates over digital media and violence positioning the document within broader discussions of ethics in technology development. Light wear from handling; stapled at upper left; text and signature clear; overall in very good condition. unknown
19432018Austin TX: Texas Parks & Wildlife Commission 1943 thru 1992. 1st Ed. Paperback. Various. Pattern. See Description No DJ. Texas Game and Fish Magazine Collection by Texas Game & Fish Commision. Published by Texas Parks & Wildlife Commission Austin TX 1943 thru 1992. 1st Edition. Paperback. No DJ. No Pg Count. A collection of 424 magazines. Most of the magazines are in very good to very fine condition however some have their covers loose only one is missing its front cover. These magazines are published by the State of Texas therefore there are few advertisements. CONTACT SELLER REGARDING SHIPPING COSTS - books weigh 88 lbs. Description text copyright 2000 BooksForComfort. Item ID 2018. Texas Parks & Wildlife Commission paperback
1935232905London: Putnam Covent Garden 1935. First Edition in English. Illustrated with photographs. 208 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original grey cloth. First Edition in English. Illustrated with photographs. 208 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Putnam, Covent Garden unknown books
192018567Paris, Société d’Editions Artistiques de tourisme et de Sport ; imprimerie de Vaugirard et Dijon, chez l’Auteur, 1920 ; in 8 carré, bradel demi chagrin rouge sang de boeuf, couverture illustrée et dos conservé, non rogné (reliure moderne) ; XXXVI, 338 pp., [1] ff. achevé d’imprimer ; 2 eaux-fortes H.T, 6 illustrations H.T en couleurs et 3 contrecollées sur carton gris, en noir ou en couleurs et très nombreuses illustrations en noir ou en couleurs, in texte ou à pleine page.
190455454London: Rowland Ward Ltd. 1904. Tall 8vo. xvi 292 pp. plus 2 pp. publisher’s ads. Photo frontisp. 44 photos and plates 1 large folding map in rear pocket. Green publisher’s cloth gilt lettering front cover & spine simulated Zebra skin endpapers minor bumping to corners edgewear slight spotting on the spine still VG copy. First edition of this excellent early account of hunting on the Kenai Peninsula including descriptions of Alaskan Native Americans salmon cannery operations and more. Radclyffe had acquired a permit from the Bureau of Biological Survey with the USDA in order to collect big game specimens for the British Museum and the account was dedicated to a longtime fellow hunter and friend Theodore Roosevelt. The author details his experiences with hunting Alaskan Brown Bears Grizzly Bears Moose Dall Sheep and running afoul of the zealous US Deputy Marshal Sexton a stickler for the new game regulations instituted on the Kenai in 1903 not to mention destroying the distilling operation of Alaskan hunter & miner Andrew Berg. He managed to survive a charging bear sow after being abandoned by his guide as well as the Alaskan courtroom but his companions were not so lucky as the judge ruled that the permit did not extend to the hunting party. Radclyffe returned later to hunt Alaska on the Kenai in August 1910 employing Andrew Berg as his head guide. See: Catherine Cassidy Alaska’s No. 1 Guide: The History and Journals of Andrew Berg 1869-1939 pp. 28-29 38. Rowland Ward Ltd., hardcover
192846832Asheville/ Madison: Game Fowl News 1928-63. Paperback. Good. 74 issues all complete with moderate to heavy wear with serious defects noted. Older issues are heavily darkened at the edges with some minor to moderate paper loss with the latter moderately tanned and lightly rubbed with some wear at the extremities. <br/><br/>Volume Four: November 1928 Number 4 December 1928 Number 10 January 1929 Number 11 February 1929 Number 12; Volume Five: March 1929 Number One to Eight front wrap of two detached numbers 10 and 11 December 1929 and January 1930; Volume Six: March 1930 Number One. April 1930ink stamp on front Number 2 September 1930 Number 7 October 1930 Number 8 front wrap detached rear lacking November 1930 Number 9 front wrap detached February 1930 Number 12; Volume Seven: May 1931 Number 2 June 1931 Number 4 front wrap detached July 1931 Number 5 January 1932 Number 11 February 1932 Number 12 wraps separated; Volume Eight: March 1932 Number 1 tear to edge; Volume Nine: January 1934 Number 11 wraps split at spine; Volume Ten: Numbers 1-4 March 1934-June 1934; Numbers 6-8 August 1934-October 1934; Number 9 and 10 November-December 1934; Volume 15: Number 9 November 1939 wraps detached Number 8 October 1939 Number 10 December 1939; Volume 16: Number Three May 1940 dampstained Number 6 August 1940 Number 7 September 1940 Number 11 January 1941; Volume 18: Numbers 9-12 November 1942-February 1943; Volume 19: Number 1 March 1943 Numbers 3-5 May 1943-July 1943; Volume 23 Number 2 April 1947; Volume 29: Number 3 May 1953; Volume 33: Number 4 June 1957 Number 5 July 1957 Number 10 January 1958 Number 11 February 1958; Volume 35: Number 2 April 1959 Number 4 June 1959 Number 7 October 1959; Volume 36: Number on March 1960 Number 2 April 1960 Number 8 November 1960 front wrap damaged and detached Number 9 December 1960; Volume 37: Number 2 April 1961 Number 5 July 1961 Number 8 November 1961 Number 11 February 1962; Volume 38: Number 2 April 1962 Number 9 December 1962 Number 11 February 1963; Volume 39: Number 1 March 1963 Number 3 May 1963 Number 6 August-September 1963. Game Fowl News paperback books
193220834Port Louis - Ile Maurice, Général Printing and Stationery, 1932 ; in-4° (285 mm), broché ; [4], 37 pp., [1] f. achevé d’imprimer, [1] f. photographie tirage collé, [5] f. de reproduction photographique, couverture crème illustrée.
