Card Games (16 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 30 cards and 1 three-numbered die May require extra postage. Size: 12mo - 6.75" - 7.75" tall. Used.

Condition: Very Good. 4 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: Quarto. Category: Apollo Arts Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 3 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 24 x 29 cms. Category: The Connoisseur; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 5 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 18 x 25 cms. Category: Pearsons Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Later printing. 8vo. [2], 3-47, [1] pp. Black cloth textured like leather, gold lettering on the front board; all edges gilt. The boards bowed, an inscription on the free front endpaper from the year of publication.

Condition: Very Good. 16 pages, 5 plates. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 25 x 30 cms. Category: Archaeologia; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Later printing. 8vo. [2], v-xiv, 3-430 pp. Green publisher's cloth with black lettering and a white playing card stamped in red and black on the front board, black lettering and black decorations stamped on the spine. With a few in-text black and white diagrams. Light rubbing and a touch of soiling to the boards. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Near Fine. 236pp, section of mainly colour plates. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine, no endpapers. 4to. . Very minor bumping to lower board edges. Text block edges starting to tan. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket protected with Brodart-style sleeve. Playing Card, Card Games (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. AUTHORS 153-3 FROM RUSSELL CARD GAMES BE AN EXPERT ON CHILDHOOD STORIES! SO THE BOX SAYS ON THE SIDE PANEL OF THIS EXCELLENT CONDITION CARD GAME FROM THE 1940'S SMALL SIZE CARDS 3 1/2" X 2 1/2" J.M. BARRIE, LOUISA MAY ALCOTT, JOSEPH CONRAD AND.( SEE PIC)ALL 40 CARDS PRESENT AND SHARP NO CREASES sharp bright crisp no creases stains or tears.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: VG for age. 1st Edition. card motif to end-papers+137, numerous text figs' and diagrams illustrating card lay-outs etc; half black cloth and red boards binging with gilt lettering. Frederick Muller's imprint pasted over Stein & Day's at bottom of t.p. Jacketclean and almost unwoirn but marred by spine-end chips. 14.5 cm x 21.5 cm.…

Second edition .. 100 playing cards with game instructions in original 2-piece, 2 compartment tray box with color printed lid. Automotive card game for 2 players or 2 teams competing in a 50 mile race. Originally published in 1925 by the Wallie Dorr Co. OCLC listing notes that Wallie Dorr was purchased by Parker Brothers the same year. General wear to box, 2-page instruction sheet separated at folds into 4 pieces. All cards present.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 16mo. 194p. Contemporary quarter morocco; worn. A pocket manual for Spanish card players containing basic rules for beginners. Described are such popular games as 'mediator' for 4 players, and 'hombre', a derivative variant for 3 players which became fashionable in France in the 17th century. Right blank margin of pp143-4 with paper fault. Light foxing through out.…

2 parts in 1 volume. Very rare first edition of a description of the most popular card games played in the Netherlands in the first quarter of the 19th century, published in two parts. The first part includes descriptions of the card games vijfhonderden (or: smousjassen), klaverjassen (klaberjass), schutjassen, pandoeren, jassen met den driehoek, zwikken, huffelen, wisselspel and others. The second part includes the famous whist as well as ombre (three versions), quadrille and piket and others. Edmund Hoyle had published his famous first game book (on Whist) in 1742 and his first collected edition of various games in 1748, translated into Dutch in 1790. While both parts of the present book note that they provide standardized rules as the games are most often played "in this country" (the present Netherlands and Belgium were united as a single kingdom from 1815 to 1830), the introduction to part one explicitly describes the games themselves as those most often played in this country, while the second part covers the four games that appeared in Hoyle's book. Spine cracked, front hinge nearly-cracked, wrappers a little worn and soiled, but otherwise a rare work in good condition.l Picarta (2 copies); cf. WorldCat (1828 and later editions). Original publisher's grey printed wrappers over thin boards. Pages: [2], IV, 90; [2], 94, [2] pp. …

9pp, 12mo. On twi bifoliums and a single leaf, only the first of the bifoliums carrying the letterhead. In good condition, on aged paper. Folded once and in an envelope with 'Whist for 2. | Rules by Miss Stanton.' on cover. The letterhead has the feel of the 1920s, but the handwriting is Victorian, and presumably that of an old spinster. The first bifolium carries a separate set of instructions over four pages, headed 'Whist for two', and concluding: 'Hope you can read it excuse blots for I cant see what I have written'. The second bifolium carries another set of instructions, over three pages, with no heading, beginning: 'The dealer deals 11 cards to each person face downwards and then asks his adversary to name the trump the cards already dealt being placed on the table in this way'. This second section concludes: 'It is a good game for two person [sic] and is best played with 2 packs of cards each person keeping his own pack -'. The single leaf carries a two page set of instructions headed 'How to play the game of Mrs. Allport'. This begins: 'Having cut the cards the lowest deals - and the other party names the trump'. …

First edition of this salesman's sample catalogue for the Paris firm active in the post-war revival of historical, artistic, and regional playing-card designs. The samples include miniature German decks, cards after 17th- and 18th-century costume types, medieval costumes, Swiss folk dress, Le Florentin luxury cards after Renaissance-style paintings by Paul-Émile Bécat, Jean Picart Le Doux's tapestry designs for International Playing Card Week in 1957, Aubusson and Gobelins-style tapestry cards, Carlos Sáenz de Tejada's Romance Español, and designs by Andrés Martinez de Leon. The cover design is by Paul Mathison, a Malibu artist and designer connected with Kenneth Anger and Curtis Harrington's experimental film circle. Oblong octavo (165 x 230 mm), 16 leaves. With 51 colour-printed playing-card samples. Original black quarter cloth, brass screw posts, gilt boards, pictorial paper cover to front board, black endpapers and pages. Binding a little rubbed and marked, internally fresh. A very good copy indeed.…

First English edition, decorated initials and ornaments, title and last verso a little soiled at margins, loss to extreme upper outer corner of title, minimal toning, pp. [4], 71, [1], 12mo, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, recased with new leather, endpapers renewed, original stab holes, boards rubbed, gilt-lettered morocco label, pastedown windowed to show 18thC armorial bookplate of the Wigan MP George Kenyon (1666-1728) of Peel Hall, Lancashire, modern label of Roger Senhouse. A good copy of the first English edition of this scarce anonymous manual, translated from the French, on the card game of quadrille. This was a variation (for four players) of ombre, a game which 'suited the genius of Ladies'. 'It will not be unnecessary to acquaint the Reader, that the following game of Quadrille has been about two years, and is at present, the favourite game at the French court [It] is more amusing and entertaining than [.] any other Game on the Cards [.]'. Ombre was most fashionable in eighteenth-century England and France, and famously played by Belinda in Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock' and also a favourite pastime of the formidable Lady Catherine de Bourgh in Pride and Prejudice. This manual was intended for beginners and provides instructions on the cards that should be used (usually 40), how to mark and pay, and play with or without calling a king. It also discusses quadrille by three and five, and the 'incidents' that may occur during a game (e.g., if one of the players should speak, which is forbidden). (ESTC T116490). …