One Thousand and One Home Amusements - 1876 - Poor Condition - Priced to Sell
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Book Details + Condition: Dick & Fitzgerald (New York). First Edition, 1858. Hardcover. 375 pages, followed by publisher advertisements. Popular volume on parlor games, card and magic tricks, charades, and more family amusements, by the author of the well known "The Magician's Own Book", George Arnold. Chapter titles include: "Acting Proverbs," "Games Requiring Memory and Constant Attention," "Ruses and Catch Games," "Answers to Puzzles and Paradoxes," "Science in Sport, and Parlor Magic," and much more. Includes 300 engraved illustrations. Embossed cloth covers with significant wearing on the spine more than the cover. Binding is in poor condition featuring rubbing to extremities; significant wear to original boards; areas of spine cloth missing; age-toning and fox-spotting to pages; interior is clean and free of markings save for fox spotting on pages and at the very front several notations and dates from previous owners. A Christmas gift to the first inscription dated 1876.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858 in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
