Penguin Books, March 2021. Trade Paperback. "This cultural and personal history of crosswords and their fans, written by an aficionado, is diverting, informative, and discursive." --The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice A delightful, erudite, and immersive exploration of the crossword puzzle and its fascinating history Almost as soon..... More
N/A, August 2002. Trade Paperback. Scrabble may be truly called America's game. But for every group of living-room players there is someone who is at one with the board. In Word Freak, Stefan Fatsis introduces readers to those few, exploring the underground world of colorful characters for which the Scrabble..... More
LA Siesta Press, 1982. Stapled Pamphlet. {5 & 1/2' x 8 & 1/2'} Stapled pamplet. [36 pages]. More
George Routledge, 1914. Cloth. Octavo. Green cloth with black & red lettering & illustrations on cover. Lettering & decorative illustrations on spine are beginning to fade. Board corners are bumped & worn, especially the bottom rear corner which is crushed, frayed and deeply worn. Top & bottom of spine edges..... More
Longmans, Green and Co, 1895. Reprint. Cloth. 2nd edition. Red cloth covered boards with black, red & white lettering and illustrations on front panel (with black tooled borderline.). Gold lettering on darkened spine. Worn top and bottom of spine. Slightly leaning spine. Darkened top textblock edge. Black end pages, though..... More
Visual Editions, September 2013. Box. Every day we map. We map how we get from a to b. We map when we re somewhere new, and somewhere we ve been many times before. We map ourselves, our days, our thoughts, memories, what we want to mark, save and share. Today..... More
Vintage, April 1966. Trade Paperback. The Book That Made Las Vegas Change the Rules Over 1,000,000 Copies in Print Edward O. Thorp is the father of card counting, and in this classic guide he shares the revolutionary point system that has been successfully used by professional and amateur card players..... More
