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Buchanan: Emerson Books, Inc., 1973. BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Moderately Creased; Moderately Chipped; Spine Heavily Faded Due to Sun Exposure; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. CONTENTS: Preface; Part One: Miscellaneous - Easy; Part Two: Football Matches; Part Three: Missing Digits (Decimal Scale); Part Four: Missing Digits (Binary and Other Scales); Part Five: Miscellaneous - Not So Easy; Part Six: Cross - Number Puzzles; Part Seven: Some Orders of Merit; Part Eight: Our Factory; Part Nine: The Island of Imperfection; Part Ten: Miscellaneous - Hard; Solutions. SYNOPSIS: These unique mind-stretching puzzles call for clear, logical thinking and reasoning. No specialized mathematics is involved in the puzzles, though numbers do enter to some extent. There are no traps - no double meanings - no false scents - only straightforward situations, in varying… Read More

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. ALSO KNOWN AS: Originally published as Dr. Crypton and His Problems by St. Martin's Press. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; Questions by Isaac Asimov; 1. An Enigmatic Evening with Microwave Cornbread 2. The Intragalactic Cabaret 3. The Case of the Fatal Forfex 4. Palindromes: No Lemons! No Melon! 5. Sleight of Mind in Katmandu 6. Shockley: Sperm Hustler Offers Compatible Kinky Ladies Einsteinish Young 7. Zeno of Elea: The First Paradoxologist 8. The Well-Hung Natives and Twenty-three Other Conundrums 9. The Logistics of Armchair Ornithology 10. Lora Does a Mobius Strip 11. The BAND and Other Phrenetic Phrases 12. How's Your Resistance? (There's o Place like Ohm) 14. Triskaidekaphobia 15. Freud and the Number 23 16. The Puzzles of Nympholepts: Lewis Carroll and Vladimir Nabokov 17. The Talk of the… Read More

London: The Kingswood Press - William Heinemann Ltd., 1987. Moderate Printing Impressions in Front Cover; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled. Classic Conundrums. FOREWORD BY: Iris Murdoch. CONTENTS: Foreword by Iris Murdoch; Preface; Puzzles; Hints; Answers to Even-numbered Puzzles; Answers to Odd-numbered Puzzles; Appendix. SYNOPSIS: The Pyrgic Puzzler is guaranteed to test the powers of logic and ingenuity of even the most avid Times crossword follower; and the eccentric appeal of the characters who populate these mind-bending problems - the mad scientist, Cryogenes T. Rosencrumpett, Professor Didipotamus or the astronomer, Seymour Stars - will capture the imagination and affection of all who read them. For the youngster bored with dry school-room mathematics or anyone who wants to stretch their mind in the most enjoyable way, this is the ideal book. As Iris Murdoch writes in the foreword to the book: "In these mental… Read More