Games for Parties: Competitions, Games for Small Parties and Many Players, Tableaux, and Charades and Ideas for Dances.
by Stevens, Kate
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
London: Ward, Lock & Co, 1939. 1st ed.. Hardback small, dustjacket, good condition (in fair dustjacket), edges toned & lightly foxed, pages lightly toned (few lightly foxed), edge tears jacket (small loss corners, piece missing spine ends, flap price-clipped, reverse side foxed), tear bottom edge one page, inner hinge little split (pages firm), few pencil ticks, old price marks, written names front pastedown, protected by removable semiarchival plastic sleeve. 128 pp. First edition. A book useful for organisers of socials, hotel and shipboard entertainments, and also helpful to the giver of the most modest of house parties.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25705
- Title
- Games for Parties: Competitions, Games for Small Parties and Many Players, Tableaux, and Charades and Ideas for Dances.
- Author
- Stevens, Kate
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Ward, Lock & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1939
- Keywords
- performing arts, leisure, hobbies, party games, collectible, collectable, first edition
- Bookseller catalogs
- LEISURE & HOBBIES;
Terms of Sale
Bookhome Sydney
Parcels posted within Australia by Australia Post. Overseas parcels from Australia posted by Air Mail with full tracking (about 10 to 30 days delivery, but delays in post possible). Expertly wrapped. Genuine guarantee. We request extra postage for heavy books.
About the Seller
Bookhome Sydney
Biblio member since 2004
Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
Friendly family-owned internet bookshop located in Sydney's inner west. Selling books since 1998 (online since 2000). A broad range of quality secondhand and antiquarian books, particularly Australian history and society (Australiana), psychology, health, animals/pets, environment, science, religion, books for children. Mostly nonfiction.
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