Children's game (5 Ergebnisse)

Oblong 4to. 9.25 x 7.75 in. [2], 24 pp. colour-lithograph illustrations throughout, [10 leaves (unnumbered).], consisting of 4 colour lithograph boards to cut out alphabet letters for playing, 2 black & white lithograph letter pages for colouring, cutting out themselves, and playing word games, 1 thick instruction leaf, 3 printed leaves on blue-, salmon-, and green-tinted thin paper instruction sheets. Flexible boards, colour-lithographed front cover, rear board with model figures on verso to be cut out to create paper-engineered toys, spiral metal comb binding as issued (minor edgewear, age toning), still a VG and complete copy. First edition of this wonderfully illustrated and charming alphabet game/book featuring anthropomorphic letters in the "Kingdom of the Alphabet" set against the adventures of a Medieval/Renaissance Country of Vowels and the Isle of Consonants uniting over a banquet ball to form an alphabet. Marquet (1892-1984) and Desnoyer (1901-1988) were illustrators and miniaturists, noted for their inventive games and illustrations who had originally designed this game/book in 1939. They were married to the well known painters Albert Marquet and Francois Denoyer respectively. Desnoyer a Russian-Ukrainian emigre from Kiev, had originally landed in Bohemia by 1906, where she learned the Western alphabet, and later settled in France. This particular copy not only features the four colour lithograph boards for children to cut out and play the suggested alphabet game, but also the 2 additional boards for an adult word game, and back board to create toys, which are typically missing, as are often the colour-tinted instruction sheets. Worldcat locates 4 copies (U of WA & Princeton (Incomplete), Bibliotheque Nationale (FR) & Bibliotheque des Chiroux (BE) -- complete); See: Robert Bolick, Books on Books Collection -- Souza Desnoyer and Marcelle Marquet, Il etait une fois un alphabet (1951-2009), Dec. 22, 2022.…

Folding coloured board game (12.6 x 12.9cm), small tube with a metal lid containing a dice and 4 playing pieces each in 4 colours, original box (15 x 7.5 x 2.6cm), rules of the game in Japanese text laid down inside lid. Signs of light use but overall very good. A compact miniature Ludo game set neatly packed in a small box. The game rules are printed inside the lid. It is described as a "new" version of Ludo, likely due to the inclusion of aeroplanes in the illustrations. The board features English captions.…

Board game. Zustand: Fine. A French childrens' board game, complete with the folding board, 10 number disks, 6 wooden pieces, the instruction sheet and box. The box is papered in apricot & gold spotted paper with an image on the cover of clowns ascending a pyramide, and one tumbling down. The box measures 11 x 8". All in very good condition.…

A large laughing female kangaroo with a joey in her pouch who says "Be Happy at Home!" to another young kangaroo asking "Why such joy?" decorates the triangular box lid of this amusing bright orange and purple 1915 peg board game. The playing board itself is framed with the text, "You can't be blue if you KANGAROO. No trouble troubles you." The unusual triangular box features three kangaroos on the top lid, with edges decorated with horse shoes and shamrocks on a purple ground. The instructions are printed on the under side of the top lid, including the offer of a $500 reward. The Kangaroo Corporation offered the prize for any correct solution to the game, which involves landing the King in Goal No. 14. "The above prize to be awarded January 15, 1916." 25 numbered holes on the board, with 12 small wooden pegs. The object of the game was to jump holes so that only the King remained in hole number 14, in the manner of Chinese checkers. Each side of the triangular box measures 9 1/4". The box printed by Gray Lith. Co. N.Y.;1915 copyright by the Kangaroo Corporation. The top lid with little scratch in the lower edge, corners repaired with sticky tape. Previous owner signature verso of lower box. The board interior with color more vivid, just a bit of wear around numbered peg holes. Not found on Trove.…

Zustand: Very good. 11 engraved cut-out figures or objects including ferryman, three couples, wolf, goat, cabbage and boat, to be slotted into boat, , original box with engraved pictorial label colored by hand, A rare children's game, possibly printed by the Parisian publisher Nepveau. Contained in the box measuring 14cm x 7cm x 1cm is a complete set of figures for the two river crossing puzzles known as the 'Jealous Husbands Problem', and 'Goat, Wolf and Cabbage'. The earliest account of these puzzles is in the 9th century manuscript "Propositionnes ad Acuendos Juvenes", (Problems to Sharpen the Young), attributed to Alcuin. In both puzzles there are only two places in the boat. In the Jealous Husbands Problem, no woman can be with another man unless also accompanied by her husband. In Goat Wolf and Cabbage, the wolf will eat the goat and the goat will eat the cabbage unless they are guarded by the boatman. Originally accompanied by counters and an instruction sheet, now lost. The box is lightly worn else in very good condition; the figures are in fine condition, except the boat, which has been repaired, and the cabbage, which lacks the lower part of its insertion tab, and one female figure lacks a hand. Rare.…