three playing cardsThis work is designed as an American authority in all games of skill and chance, and will settle any disputed point. It has been prepared with great care, and is not a re-hash of English games, but a live American book, expressly prepared for American players.The American Hoylecontains 525 pages, is printed on fine white paper, bound in cloth, with extra gilt side and beveled boards, and is profusely illustrated.$2.00Spayth’s American Draught Player; or, The Theory and Practice of the Scientific Game of Checkers.Simplified and Illustrated with Practical Diagrams. Containing upwards of 1,700 Games and Positions. By Henry Spayth. Fifth edition, with over two hundred Corrections and Improvements. Containing: The Standard Laws of the Game—Full Instructions—Draught Board Numbered—Names of the Games, and how formed—The “Theory of the Move and its Changes” practically explained and illustrated with Diagrams—Playing Tables for Draught Clubs—New Systems of Numbering the Board—Prefixing Signs to the Variations—List of Draught Treatises and Publications chronologically arranged.Draught BoardBound in cloth, gilt side and back$3.00Sut Lovingood.Yarns spun by “A Nat’ral Born Durn’d Fool.” Warped and Wove for Public Wear by George W. Harris. Illustrated with eight fine full page engravings from designs by Howard. It would be difficult, we think, to cram a larger amount of pungent humor into 300 pages than will be found in this really funny book. The Preface and Dedication are models of sly simplicity, and the 24 Sketches which follow are among the best specimens of broad burlesque to which the genius of the ludicrous, for which the Southwest is so distinguished, has yet given birth.Man on horseCloth, gilt edges$1.50How to Conduct a Debate.A Series ofComplete Debates,Outlines of Debates, andQuestions for Discussion.In the complete debates, the questions for discussion are defined, the debate formally opened, an array of brilliant arguments adduced on either side, and the debate closed according to parliamentary usages. The second part consists of questions for debate, with heads of arguments, for and against, given in a condensed form for the speakers to enlarge upon to suit their own fancy. In addition to these areA Large Collection of Debatable Questions.The authorities to be referred to for information are given at the close of every debate. By Frederic Rowton.232 pages, paper50 cts.Bound in boards, cloth back75 cts.The Secret Out; or, 1,000 Tricks with Cards, and Other Recreations.Illustrated with over 300 engravings. A book which explains all the Tricks and Deceptions with Playing Cards ever known, and gives, besides, a great many new ones. The whole being described so carefully, with engravings to illustrate them, that anybody can easily learn how to perform them. This work also contains 240 of the best Tricks of Legerdemain, in addition to the Card Tricks.Pattern of card imagesSYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS.Part I.—Tricks with Cards performed by skillful Manipulation and Sleight of Hand.Part II.—Tricks performed by the aid of Memory, Mental Calculation and the Peculiar Arrangement of the Cards.Part III.—Tricks with Cards performed by the aid of Confederacy and sheer Audacity.Part IV.—Tricks performed by the aid of Ingenious Apparatus and Prepared Cards.Part V.—Tricks of Legerdemain, Conjuring, Sleight of Hand and other Fancies, commonly called White Magic.Part VI.—Tricks in White Magic, performed by the aid of Ingenious Contrivance and Simple Apparatus.Part VII.—Natural Magic, or Recreations in Science, embracing Curious Amusements in Magnetism, Mechanics, Acoustics, Chemistry, Hydraulics and Optics.Part VIII.—A Curious Collection of Entertaining Experiments, Amusing Puzzles, Queer Sleights, Including the Celebrated Science of Second Sight, Recreations in Arithmetic, and Fireside Games for Family Pastime, and other Astonishing Scientific Paradoxes and Attractive Amusements.The Secret Outis, by all odds, the most curious book that has been published in many years, and lays bare the whole machinery of magic, and with a simplicity so perfect that nobody can fail to become a domestic magician in a week, with very little study and practice. Such is the unerring process of instruction adopted in this volume, that no reader can fail to succeed in executing every Trick, Experiment, Game, etc., set down, if he will at all devote his attention, in his leisure hours, to the subject; and, as every trick with cards known will be found in this collection, it may be considered the only complete work on the subject ever published. 400 pages, bound in cloth, gilt$1.50GOOD BOOKSSent Free of Postage at the Prices Marked.Barber’s Book of American Ready-Made Speeches.50 cts.Dick’s Quadrille Call-Book and Ball-Room Prompter.50 “The American Hoyle; or, Gentleman’s Hand-Book of Games. 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This work is designed as an American authority in all games of skill and chance, and will settle any disputed point. It has been prepared with great care, and is not a re-hash of English games, but a live American book, expressly prepared for American players.The American Hoylecontains 525 pages, is printed on fine white paper, bound in cloth, with extra gilt side and beveled boards, and is profusely illustrated.$2.00
Spayth’s American Draught Player; or, The Theory and Practice of the Scientific Game of Checkers.Simplified and Illustrated with Practical Diagrams. Containing upwards of 1,700 Games and Positions. By Henry Spayth. Fifth edition, with over two hundred Corrections and Improvements. Containing: The Standard Laws of the Game—Full Instructions—Draught Board Numbered—Names of the Games, and how formed—The “Theory of the Move and its Changes” practically explained and illustrated with Diagrams—Playing Tables for Draught Clubs—New Systems of Numbering the Board—Prefixing Signs to the Variations—List of Draught Treatises and Publications chronologically arranged.
Draught Board
Bound in cloth, gilt side and back$3.00
Sut Lovingood.Yarns spun by “A Nat’ral Born Durn’d Fool.” Warped and Wove for Public Wear by George W. Harris. Illustrated with eight fine full page engravings from designs by Howard. It would be difficult, we think, to cram a larger amount of pungent humor into 300 pages than will be found in this really funny book. The Preface and Dedication are models of sly simplicity, and the 24 Sketches which follow are among the best specimens of broad burlesque to which the genius of the ludicrous, for which the Southwest is so distinguished, has yet given birth.
Man on horse
Cloth, gilt edges$1.50
How to Conduct a Debate.A Series of
Complete Debates,Outlines of Debates, andQuestions for Discussion.
In the complete debates, the questions for discussion are defined, the debate formally opened, an array of brilliant arguments adduced on either side, and the debate closed according to parliamentary usages. The second part consists of questions for debate, with heads of arguments, for and against, given in a condensed form for the speakers to enlarge upon to suit their own fancy. In addition to these are
A Large Collection of Debatable Questions.
The authorities to be referred to for information are given at the close of every debate. By Frederic Rowton.232 pages, paper50 cts.Bound in boards, cloth back75 cts.
The Secret Out; or, 1,000 Tricks with Cards, and Other Recreations.Illustrated with over 300 engravings. A book which explains all the Tricks and Deceptions with Playing Cards ever known, and gives, besides, a great many new ones. The whole being described so carefully, with engravings to illustrate them, that anybody can easily learn how to perform them. This work also contains 240 of the best Tricks of Legerdemain, in addition to the Card Tricks.
Pattern of card images
SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS.
Part I.—Tricks with Cards performed by skillful Manipulation and Sleight of Hand.
Part II.—Tricks performed by the aid of Memory, Mental Calculation and the Peculiar Arrangement of the Cards.
Part III.—Tricks with Cards performed by the aid of Confederacy and sheer Audacity.
Part IV.—Tricks performed by the aid of Ingenious Apparatus and Prepared Cards.
Part V.—Tricks of Legerdemain, Conjuring, Sleight of Hand and other Fancies, commonly called White Magic.
Part VI.—Tricks in White Magic, performed by the aid of Ingenious Contrivance and Simple Apparatus.
Part VII.—Natural Magic, or Recreations in Science, embracing Curious Amusements in Magnetism, Mechanics, Acoustics, Chemistry, Hydraulics and Optics.
Part VIII.—A Curious Collection of Entertaining Experiments, Amusing Puzzles, Queer Sleights, Including the Celebrated Science of Second Sight, Recreations in Arithmetic, and Fireside Games for Family Pastime, and other Astonishing Scientific Paradoxes and Attractive Amusements.
The Secret Outis, by all odds, the most curious book that has been published in many years, and lays bare the whole machinery of magic, and with a simplicity so perfect that nobody can fail to become a domestic magician in a week, with very little study and practice. Such is the unerring process of instruction adopted in this volume, that no reader can fail to succeed in executing every Trick, Experiment, Game, etc., set down, if he will at all devote his attention, in his leisure hours, to the subject; and, as every trick with cards known will be found in this collection, it may be considered the only complete work on the subject ever published. 400 pages, bound in cloth, gilt$1.50
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