Crossword Puzzles: How to Make Your Own
by The Diagram Group
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Good -/No Jacket as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0312176899
- ISBN 13
- 9780312176891
- Seller
-
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1982. 160pp. Original wraps. Stated First U. S. Edition, 1st Printing (complete number line). First Published in Great Britain. Complete with a wide selection of over 50 predrawn crossword grids in a variety of patterns. Includes basic rules for puzzle compiling and tips on how to make both straightforward and cryptic puzzles in many degrees of difficulty. Details the tricks, techniques & secrets involved in making your own. Pages are clean have no writing, underlining, or highlighting but beginning to yellow with age. First 6 pages have some very minor stains near outer right edges. Binding is tight with no cracks or breaks. Covers have some age-toning and have some minor scuffing/finger soiling and are slightly bowed. Shelfwear (small 1/8" tear to outer right edge of front cover, light bumping to edges, rubbing to corners and laminate lightly peeled at corners). This is not a remainder or ex-library. No previous owner markings. Nice copy of this valuable reference. . First American Edition, Collectible. Quality trade Paperback. Good -/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- after-words bookstore
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004263
- Title
- Crossword Puzzles: How to Make Your Own
- Author
- The Diagram Group
- Format/Binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Good -
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- Edition
- First American Edition, Collectible
- Binding
- Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 0312176899
- ISBN 13
- 9780312176891
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1982
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Crossword Puzzles
- Bookseller catalogs
- Puzzles and Problems;
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