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Sun, Oct 12, 2025 12:00PM EDT
Lot 56

[PUZZLES – BOOKS] Four Vintage Puzzle Books in Decorative B...

Estimate: $150 - $250

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[PUZZLES ? BOOKS]?Four Vintage Puzzle Books in Decorative Bindings.?Including Picture Puzzles & Word Play and Twentieth Century Standard Puzzle Book by Cyril Pearson (ca. 1907 & 1915); Puzzledom for Fireside Amusement by ?One of the Old Boys" (ca. 1890); and Excursions into Puzzledom by Tom Hood & his Sister (1879). All in decorative cloth bindings elaborately stamped in gilt, black and white. With a profusion of illustrations. Two with the bookplates of famed magic collector J.B. Findlay. All four 8vos and in good or very good condition. An attractive grouping.