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[BOOKS - AMUSEMENTS] Collection of Vintage Books on Games and Amusements. 22 items. Includes: The Boy’s Own Book of Indoor Games and Recreations, by Morley Adams, editor (The Boy’s Own Paper Office, ca. 1920); — Cassell’s Book of In-Door Amusements, Card Games, and Fireside Fun, four editions (all Cassell & Company, Limited, ca. 1890, 1898, 1903, and a facsimile from 1973); — Cassell’s Book of Sports and Pastimes, two editions (Cassell, Petter, Galpin, & Co., h.d. 1882; Cassell and Company Limited, 1893); — Diversions & Pastimes, by R. M. Abraham (Constable & Co. Ltd., 1933); — Encyclopedia of Sports Games and Pastimes (The Fleetway House, circa 1930s); — Games of Skill and Conjuring (George Routledge & Sons, ca. 1870s); — Household Management and Entertaining, vol. 5 of the “Household Reference Library” (The Fleetway House, ca. 1930); — Popular Scientific Recreations, by Gaston Tissandier, two editions (both Ward, Lock & Co., ca. late 1800s); — Three Hundred Things a Bright Boy Can Do, by Harold Armitage, editor (Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd., ca. 1930); — Winter Nights Entertainments, by R. M. Abraham, two editions (Constable & Company Ltd., 1932; Dover Publications, Inc., 1961); and others. Various bindings. Several with publisher’s elaborate pictorial boards and spines stamped and lettered in multiple colors. Some with gilded edges. All illustrated. Most with Dawes bookplates. 8vos. Condition varies, generally very good. A fine group.