Search Results: Games--Hobbies--Puzzles from Augustine Funnell Books

London : Cassell Illustrated / Octopus Publishing Group, 2015. Book. Fine. Illustrated Boards. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. Small quarto. #35 of 75 signed/numbered copies. First printing w/complete number line. Oake "reveals the origins and science behind various illusions, and explains why there is a difference between what the eye sees and what is actually happening on stage." 224 pages, illustrated. Embossed "Supporting the Bruce Oake Foundation" stamp to front end paper, w/the handwritten notation "35/75" inside same. The 75 signed/numbered copies were offered by Oake to those who made a donation to the Bruce Oake Foundation (Bruce being Scott's brother, and an addict who died at the age of 25, from a heroin overdose). A very nice unread copy..

Los Angeles: Price/Stern/Sloan Publishers, 1981. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. One of a series of 1980s party game booklets for kids and comics fans, in which one player would select one of 12 stories (with a number of blank spaces in the sentences) from the booklet, and then request nouns, adjectives, verbs, and so on from the other players. The first player would then read out the story, with the suggested words in the appropriate spaces, and in the process hope to form an amusing (or, as the directions would have it, a "fantastic, screamingly funny, shocking, silly, crazy or just plain dumb") story. Story titles include "The Red Skull," "Captain America Protects a Movie Star," "Captain America Rebuilds His Car," "Captain America at the Singles Party," "The Avengers Find Captain America," and so on. Unpaginated, illustrated w/black & white drawings of Cap and other Marvel creations. Only… Read More

Fredericton: Atlantex Publications, 1998. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A collection of postcard images from the collections of the authors, showing scenes, buildings and people of Fredericton, New Brunswick. 128 pages, signed by Taylor on inside front cover. Internally tight and clean w/moderate general handling wear, signs of sticker removal from bottom of title page..

London: Seaby Publications, 1985. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. "--provides an introduction to the coinages of the Near and Middle East issued by the various dynasties that arose from the religious state established by the Prophet Muhammad." Broome excluded the Islamic coinages of India and South East Asia "because they are derived from differing monetary concepts and cultural backgrounds." Spruce cloth w/silver foil spine lettering, 230 pages (including bibliography, index), illustrated. Light scuffing to cloth, in price-clipped dust jacket w/light scratches, rubbing. A nice copy..

Games Workshop Book. Very Good to Fine. Stiff Card Wraps. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A lot of seven sourcebooks from the publisher's LoTR Strategy Battle Game series, published in 2005 (1), 2006 (2) and 2007 (4). All show very minor wear..

Roseville: Fantasy Flight Games / Games Workshop Limited, 2010. Book. Illus. by Amy Ashbaugh, Matt Bradbury, John Blanche, Adam Burn, Mauro dal Bo, Zach Graves, Nuala Kennedy, Pat Loboyko, Peter Mohrbacher, David Nash, and Ben Zweifel. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Part II of The Warpstorm Adventure Trilogy, a role-playing game set "in the grim darkness of the 41st Millennium." Which isn't significantly different from the grim darkness of the 21st millennium, except that they get to slaughter their crooked politicians, and we ask them to screw us over repeatedly. God, but we're a funny species! Pictorial boards, 72 pages, illustrated. Mildly bumped corners..

Fredericton: Capital Free Press, 1986. Book. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition.. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A publication intended to further interest in collecting wooden money. Reproduces images of more than 300 items, listing (when known) the date of issue, the issuer, the number issued, colour and size, with a rating code indicating scarcity. Photocopied typescript, 95 pages, illustrated. Moderate general wear..