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Contract Bridge Blue Book.
New York: The Bridge World, 1931. [Card game] FIRST EDITION, early printing (first was published five months earlier). Octavo (16 x 12cm), pp.348. Publisher's blue cloth hardcovers blocked in gilt. Contents clean, owner signature and book store stamp to free endpaper, covers clean and bright. Near fine. A source book..... More
Hephaestus or the Soul of The Machine.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., [1925]. FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (17 x 12cm), pp.90; [6], blank; [8], ads. Publisher's brown hardcovers with printed title labels. Contents clean, some rubbing to covers. Very good. A scarce book. Hephaestus is the god of fire, the incarnation of the machine-age of..... More
Canasta For All.
London: The Sunday Times, n.d. [ca. 1950]. [Card game] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.74; [2]. Publisher's illustrated softcovers, priced at 2/6. With fold-out diagram. Contents clean, covers lightly handled with some rubs/creases. Very good. A source book consulted by Ian Fleming while writing Goldfinger (1959), the opening..... More
Canasta For All. Together with How to Win at Canasta.
London: The Sunday Times, n.d. [ca. 1950]. [Card game] FIRST EDITIONS (likely the only editions). Small octavos (18 x 12cm), [1] pp.74; [2] pp.76. Publisher's illustrated softcovers, each priced at 2/6. With fold-out diagram. Gently handled. Very good. 'Canasta For All' is a source book consulted by Ian Fleming while..... More
Prometheus, or Biology and the Advancement of Man.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., [1925]. FIRST EDITION. Small octavo, pp.94; [2], blank; [8], ads. Publisher's hardcovers in typographic dust-wrapper, priced 2/6. Pencil ownership of bibliographer Jon Gilbert. Fine, in slightly nicked jacket. Rare- no other UK copy currently listed. Fleming's own copy (signed, without jacket), sold for..... More
The Complete Card Player.
London: The Bodley Head, 1949. [Card games] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.772. Publisher's grey cloth hardcovers suitably blocked in red and black. Contents clean, edges a little dusty, covers with a few marks, spine toned. Ostrow's manual was the first-ever book to be reviewed by the future James..... More
Reese On Canasta.
London: Edward Arnold, 1951. [Card game] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.96. Publisher's yellow cloth hardcovers blocked in black. Contents clean, edges toned, covers lightly handled. Near fine. Includes the laws of of the game as published by The Sunday Times. A source book consulted by Ian Fleming while..... More
Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War.
London: Fisher Unwin, 1916. [Social psychology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.213; [1], Imprint; [2], blank. Publisher's mid-green cloth lettered and ruled in blind to front cover, blocked in gilt to backstrip. Edges spotted, light foxing within, small, neat owner name to paste-down, covers are rather fresh looking with..... More
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