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Books

Title	Edition	Year of Publication	Contributors	Country of Publication	Possible Copyright Status				Available Online?
100 riddles and 101 things to do		1928	Mrs Kenneth Horan, Mrs Marcella Burns Hahner
101 best action games for boys 6 to 12		1952	Lillian Frankel
101 games for boys and girls		1928	Maude Day. Baltzell
255 games to play		1929	Paul William Kearney, Clare A. Graeffe
255 party games to play		1934	Clare A. Graeffe, Paul W. (Paul William) Kearney
325 group contests for the army, navy, and school		1918	William J. (William James) Cromie
A. Alekhine vs. E. D. Bogoljubow		1934	Fred Reinfeld, Reuben Fine
The Abingdon party book		1937	Ethel Owen, Frank Owen
Achievement scales in physical education activities for boys and girls in elementary and junior high schools		1934	Neils Peter Neilson, Frederick W. (Frederick Warren) Cozens
Active games and contests		1935	Elmer Dayton Mitchell, Bernard Sterling Mason
The American checker player's handbook		1926	Erroll A. Smith
The American chess player's handbook		1934	Howard Staunton
The American chess player's handbook		1910	Howard Staunton
The American chessplayer's handbook		1928	Howard Staunton
The American Hoyle: or, Gentleman's hand-book of games, containing all the games played in the United States, with rules, descriptions, and technicalities adapted to the American methods of playing	21st ed.	1916	William Brisbane Dick, Edmond Hoyle
An athletic program for elementary schools		1927	Leonora Andersen
Ball to ball billiards		1911	Edmund Foster Hoskin
A beginners book of chess		1917
The Bible cross word puzzle book		1925	Gabrielle Elliot, Arthur Rex Forbush, Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Elliot) Forbush
The Bible cross-word puzzle book		1932	Sue Killam Davis
Billiard secrets		1929	Wallace Ritchie
Billiards as it should be played		1941	Byron Schoeman, Willie Hoppe
The book of athletics		1922	Paul Withington, Lothrop Withington
The book of athletics		1914	Paul Withington
A book of charades		1927	Carolyn Wells
The book of frolics for all occasions		1911	Mary Dawson, Emma (Paddock) Telford
The book of games and parties for all occasions		1920	Theresa Hunt Wolcott
The book of games of home, school and playground		1927	William Byron Forbush, Harry R. Allen
A book of original parties		1925	Ethel Owen
The book of the Cambridge Springs international tournament, 1904		1935	Irving Chernev, Fred Reinfeld, Reuben Fine
The book of the New York international chess tournament		1925	Hermann Helms, Alexander Alekhine
Book of the Warsaw 1935 international chess team tournament		1936	Fred Reinfeld, Harold Meyer Phillips
Boys' and girls' book of indoor games		1928	A. Frederick (Archie Frederick) Collins
Boys' and girls' book of outdoor games		1929	A. Frederick (Archie Frederick) Collins
The boys' book of amusements		1927	A. Frederick (Archie Frederick) Collins
Cómo no debe jugarse al ajedrez		1934
Camp and outing activities		1915	G. Cornelius Baker, Frank H. (Frank Howbert) Cheley
Camp recreations and pageants		1927	Mari Ruef. Hofer
Character building through recreation: a training course in recreational leadership		1929	Kenneth Lewis Heaton
Charades		1927	Leslie Hastings
Charades		1911
Checker classics: the expert's handbook of American match games with analyses, notes, and diagrams		1922	Erroll A. Smith
Checkers		1918	David Andrew Mitchell
Checkers : how to win		1932	Preston H. Ketchum, Joseph Duffy
Checkers: Pomeroy-Jordan world's championship match games, 50 games, unrestricted, played under the auspices of the Binghamton Chamber of commerce at Binghamton, N.Y., Aug. 28-Sept 25, 1913		1913	Alfred Jordan, M. E. (M. Earl) Pomeroy
Checkers: the handy manual, containing the standard laws, instructions to beginners and students on the scientific method of playing the game, and the best lines of play on all the standard openings		1923	Preston H. Ketchum
Checkers; world's championship match games		1914	Alfred Jordan, M. E. (M. Earl) Pomeroy
Chess		1917	David Andrew Mitchell
Chess and checkers		1918	Edward Lasker
Chess for the fun of it		1934	Brian Harley
Chess fundamentals		1921	José Raúl Capablanca
Chess fundamentals		1921	José Raúl Capablanca
Chess made easy		1750	Gioachino Greco, Gioachino Greco
Chess masterpieces		1928	Frank James Marshall
Chess masterpieces		1936	Fred Reinfeld, Edgard Colle
Chess strategy and tactics		1933	Irving Chernev, Fred Reinfeld
Chess tales & chess miscellanies		1912	Willard Fiske, Horatio S. (Horatio Stevens) White
Chessmen		1937	Gustavus Adolphus Pfeiffer, Jean. Maunoury, Donald M. (Donald Macy) Liddell
The children's book of games & parties		1913	Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Children's games for all seasons		1921	Teresa M. Bruck, C. M. Burd, Van Vliet
Childrens’ parties for Sunday school and home		1915	Lottie Emmogene Fitch
Classroom activities		1956	Frances R. Stuart
Community recreation		1929	James Claude Elsom
Comparative chess		1932	Frank James Marshall
The complete fundamentals of billiards		1934	Clyde A. Storer
A complete guide to the games of checkers and chess		1916	Maxim La Roux
The complete playcraft book		1926	Patten Beard
The conduct of physical activities in elementary and high schools		1927	Wilbur Pardon Bowen
Creative activities in physical education: correlated and integrated games and dances from many countries		1929	Olive Katherine Horrigan
Curious chess facts		1937	Irving Chernev
Cut off my head: a book of original charades		1932	Jasper Whiting
Daly's billiard book		1913	Albert Hedley, Maurice Daly, William Welton Harris
"Dame Curtseys̓" book of games for children for indoors and outdoors and all occasions		1914	Ellye Howell Glover
Dancing, Beauty, and Games		1913	Constance Stewart-Richardson
Das internationale schachturnier Moskau 1925		1926	Efim Dmitrievich Bogoljubow
Das schachspiel: systematisches lehrbuch für anfänger und geübte		1931	Siegbert Tarrasch
Denvir's guide to checkers: containing lines of play on all important openings and improvements on standard play not to be found in any other work on the game		1934	John T. Denvir
Denvir's three move guide to checkers		1936	John T. Denvir
Der klingende garten		1933	Gustav Moissl
Die französische Partie		1927	Géza Maróczy
Die Kunst der Verteidigung		1927	Hans Kmoch
Dr. Lasker's chess career		1935	Fred Reinfeld, Reuben Fine
Dramatic games and dances for little children		1914	Caroline Crawford, Katherine Kellogg
Duffy's single corner: the game of checkers		1934	Joe Mexo Duffy
Duffy's standard positions: showing the proper method of handling endings		1934	Joe Mexo Duffy
Dynamite: or, What do people think about you?		1937	Doris Webster, Mary Alden Hopkins
Easy games for the tinies		1915	Adèle Milligan Allmann
Education by plays and games		1907	George Ellsworth Johnson
Educational story plays and schoolroom games		1926	Emily Warren Elmore, Marie Louise Carns, Bernice Oehler
The elements of combination play in chess		1935	Fred Reinfeld
Encyclopedia of games		1929	Emanuel Lasker
Entertainment for all occasions		1926	Corinne Wentworth
Entertainments for home, church and school		1910	Theodore Waters, Frederica Seeger
An experiment in recreation with the mentally retarded: a joint project of the Lincoln State School and Colony and the Illinois Institute for Juvenile Research	Rev. ed.	1951	Bertha E. Schlotter, Margaret T. Svendsen
An experimental investigation of the teaching of team games: a study, applied to the elementary school level, of three methods of teaching		1936	Elizabeth Geraldine Rodgers
The exploits and triumphs, in Europe, of Paul Morphy, the chess champion		1859	Frederick Milnes Edge
Fifty new games		1927	W. H. Taylor
Floor games		1912	J. R. Sinclair, H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Foster's complete Hoyle		1927	R. F. (Robert Frederick) Foster
Foster's complete Hoyle		1937	R. F. (Robert Frederick) Foster
Foster's complete Hoyle		1916	R. F. (Robert Frederick) Foster
Foster's complete Hoyle		1914	R. F. (Robert Frederick) Foster
Fun; 115 parlor games and guessing contests		1925	Betty Ann. Fuller
Fun and health		1938	Mrs Mary B. Greer
Fun and work for future farmers, F.F.A: A collection of games, programs, and community activities with practical ideas and suggestions for social and recreational programs for rural boys' organizations		1934
Fun en route: the bon voyage book, including fun on deck, fun on wheels, fun on wings, and fun, fun, wherever you are		1934	Clay Morgan
Fun for older adults		1956	Larry Eisenberg, Virginia Stafford
Fun for the family		1937	Jerome Sydney Meyer
A game program in physical education: for the elementary school and the junior high school		1929	Jessie Rand. Tanner
The game-way to sports		1937	Harry Atwood Reynolds
Games and dances	3d ed.	1920	William A. (William Albin) Stecher
Games and dances: a selected collection of games, song-games and dances suitable for schools, playgrounds, gymnastic associations, boys' & girls' clubs, etc		1926	William A. (William Albin) Stecher
Games and dances: a selected collection of games, song-games and dances suitable for schools, playgrounds, gymnastic associations, boys' & girls' clubs, etc	2d ed.--rev. and enl.	1916	William A. (William Albin) Stecher
Games and exercises for mental defectives		1916	Hilda Alice Wrightson
Games and field day programs		1933
Games and game leadership		1932	Francis J. Rigney, Charles Frederick Smith, Elbert Kirtley Fretwell
Games and parties for children		1916	Grace Lee. Davison
Games for all occasions		1930	Mary E. Blain
Games for boys		1920	Sherman Ripley
Games for children's development		1918	Hilda A. Wrightson, E. Jerome O'Connor
Games for every day		1926	Gabrielle Elliot, Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Elliot) Forbush, Constance Whittemore
Games for grown ups: hilariously compiled by Dixie Willson and Harriet Eager Davis for the amusement and entertainment of Delineator readers and their friends; illustrated by Sue Williams		1929	Milward Kennedy
Games for Spanish clubs		1926	Colley F. (Colley Fredward) Sparkman
Games for St. Valentine's day		1928	Mary E. Blain L, Mary E. Blain
Games for two		1930	Emily Stanley Warren
Games for two, or, How to keep the Reno wolf away from your door		1937	Clement Wood, Gloria Goddard
Games the world around		1941	Sarah Ethridge Hunt, Ethel Cain
Gazette's checker department		1916	William John Wood
Geister games		1930	Edna Geister
Geography games: a method of teaching geography in primary grades		1919	Myra. King, Mrs. Susan M. Dorsey
The Girl scout game book		1929
Go and go-moku, the oriental board games and their American versions		1934	Edward Lasker
Goldener Jugendmorgen		1914	A. Schlipköter, Wilhelm Schlipköter, Gustav Schlipköter
Gonotsky vs. Lieber checker match games: a record of the forty-game match between Samuel Gonotsky, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Michael Lieber, of Detroit, Mich., played at the Garden City hotel, Long Island, N. Y., January, 1928, for a stake of one thousand dollars		1932	Herbert Morrall
Good games		1930	Mrs Jean Hosford Fretwell, Jesse F. Williams, Keith Ward
A good time at your picnic: picnic plans and games		1942	Helen Stevens Fisher
Good times at home: a library of entertainment		1909
Good times for boys: a manual for the practical conduct of recreational activities for boys		1927	William Ralph La Porte
Good tyme party games, stunts and tricks		1928	Alois Kilian Becker
Good-time games		1927	Bigelow Lipting
Grab-bag of fun: or, The book of things to do		1936	Gerry Brown
Graded games for rural schools		1926	Alfred Eric Ross
Grow up emotionally and have fun!: 58 valuable and amusing psychological tests of emotional maturity		1936	J. George (Justus George) Frederick
Handbook of active games		1951	Darwin Alexander Hindman
A handbook of games and programs for church, school, and home		1922	William Ralph La Porte
A handbook of games and programs for church, school, and home		1925	William Ralph La Porte
Handbook of phyiscal training and games, for elementary schools with gymnasiums & playrooms		1914	William A. (William Albin) Stecher
A handbook of stunts		1928	Martin Rodgers
The happy party book		1929	Ethel Owen, Frank Owen
Harper's outdoor book for boys		1907	Joseph H. (Joseph Henry) Adams
Health and physical education for elementary schools		1928	Alonzo F. (Alonzo Franklin) Myers, Ossian Clinton Bird
Health by stunts		1919	N. H. (Norton H.) Pearl, H. E. Brown
Heiteres aus der schachwelt: Allerlei belustigendes für schachfreunde		1916	Arpad Bauer
Held's guide to the game of checkers: a complete guide for beginners		1933	Lawrence Held
Here's for a good time: a collection of parties for holidays and all kinds of miscellaneous social occasions, for young people and adults		1929	Beatrice Plumb
Hi neighbor		1958
Histoire anecdotique et psychologie des jeux de cartes, dés, échecs		1919	Victor Du Bled
Home games		1911	George Hapgood
Homemade games: how to make and play indoor and outdoor games		1934	Angelo Patri, Arthur H. Lawson
Hospital and bedside games		1930	Neva Leona Boyd
How not to play chess		1931	Philip Hereford
How to be a successful hostess, what every woman should know about entertaining and etiquette		1930	Charlotte Clarke, Thelma B. Clarke, Manson L. Gordon
How to play chess		1907	Charlotte Boardman Rogers
How to play the chess openings		1935	George Ernest Smith, W. M. Dash
How to play the chess openings		1971
How we do it game book: the best games selected from the How we do it column of the AAHPER journal		1956	Eleanor Parker King
Hoyle's card games: the most popular games of cards played in the English-speaking world	New and rev.	1923	Edmond Hoyle
Hoyle's complete and authoritative book of games	[New enl. ed.]	1940	Edmond Hoyle
Hoyle's games		1926	R. F. (Robert Frederick) Foster, Edmond Hoyle
Hoyle's games		1934	R. F. (Robert Frederick) Foster, Edmond Hoyle
Hoyle's games	Autograph ed.	1913	Edmond Hoyle
Hoyle's standard games, and bridge whist, 500, fan tan, solo, hearts and card tricks: rules for playing all modern card games		1920	Edmond Hoyle
Hoyle's standard games: including auction bridge, five hundred, fan tan, solo, hearts, rum, etc.; rules for playing all modern card games ... also chess, checkers, mahjong, bunco and dominoes		1926
Hoyle's standard games: including auction bridge, five hundred, fan tan, solo, hearts, rum, etc. Rules for playing all modern card games, euchre, whist, cassino, pedro sancho, high five, cinch, old sledge, seven-up, pinochle, skat, cribbage, écarté, piquet, loo, vingt-un (21), quinze, California jack, rounce, etc. Also mah-jong, chess, checkers, and dominoes		1924	Edmond Hoyle
Hoyle's standard games: royal auction (Lillies), bridge whist, 500, fan tan, solo, and hearts, rules for playing all modern card games, euchre, whist, cassino, pedro sancho, high five, cinch, old sledge, seven-up, penuchle, matrimony, skat, cribbage, ecarte, piquet, brag, loo, vingt-un (21), put, quinze, loo		1914	Edmond Hoyle
Ice breakers; games and stunts for large and small groups	6th ed.	1919	Edna. Geister
Ice breakers: games and stunts for large and small groups	6th ed., rev. and enl.	1919	Edna Geister
Ideas for children's parties		1921	Arthur Howard Strouse
If you live with little children		1957	Carolyn Kauffman, Patricia Farrell
Illustrated games, rhythms, and stunts for children: upper elementary grades		1957	Frank H. Geri
Indoor and outdoor games		1936	Margherita O. (Margherita Osborn) Osborne
Indoor games and socials for boys		1912	G. Cornelius Baker
Indoor games for awkward moments		1915	Ruth Hoadley Whitworth, Harry L. Smith
It is to laugh: a book of games and stunts		1922	Edna Geister
It's your move: a new manual of checkers		1929	William Francis Ryan
Jaffe's chess primer		1937	Samuel Keshevsky, Charles Jaffe
Jeux de plein air et d'intérieur		1914	active1912-1914. Georges Le Roy
The jolly book of new games: thirty-eight more games for real boys and girls		1928	Wallace Dunbar Vincent
The jolly book of playcraft		1916	Patten Beard
Jordan vs. Banks match games for a purse of $1,000.00 and the restricted world's checker championship		1914	Harry Lieberman
Judge for yourself		1935	Albert Wilfred Fribourg, David Stein
Just for fun		1916	Helen Johnson Currier
La roulette; realtà matematiche e deduzioni pratiche con numerose tabelle per il giuoco progressivo e 6 tavole a colori fuori testo		1932	Urbino Trembeni
La science de la roulette et du trente-et-quarante		1926	Henri Chateau
Lasker's manual of chess		1934	Emanuel Lasker
Lasker's manual of chess		1927	Emanuel Lasker
The laws of mah-jongg: 1925 code		1925	Joseph Park. Babcock, Mr. Babcock
A lesson in squash racquets with Harry L. Cowles		1928	Harry Lee. Cowles
Let's throw a party: a complete guide for the hostess who doesn't want her parties to go dead on her; games to play, punches and food to serve		1934	Sam. Whiting, Harold I. Smith
Lexicon games; especially devised for Lexicon cards		1935	Alexander T. Hasler
A little book of charades		1937	Alfred Grosvenor Rolfe
Long-Hunt match games for the world's checker championship		1937	Benjamin Carson, Asa A. Long, Edwin F. Hunt
Mah-jongg: the play of one hundred intelligences, in a prologue and one act		1923	Constance Grenelle Wilcox
Mah-jongg ... up-to-date		1924	Milton Cooper Work
Manual de ajedrez		1931	Henri Delaire
Manual of games, grades one to six, Minneapolis public schools		1926
Manual of gymnastics, games, action plays, rhythmic plays and rhythmic steps for the elementary schools of Reading, Pennsylvania, comp. by Alexander A. Harwick		1918	Alexander Aiken Harwick
Manual of physical education activities for the elementary schools of the state of California		1929	Neils Peter Neilson, Winifred Van Hagen
Manual of physical training: games and mass competitions		1915	Charles H. (Charles Herbert) Keene
Manual training--play problems: constructive work for boys and girls based on the play interest		1917	William Samuel Marten
Marriage or its equivalent		1934	Travis Hoke, Dr. X, Dr X
The Mary Dawson game book; a manual of original games and guessing contests for entertainments of every description and for all ages		1916	Mary Dawson
Masters of the chessboard: (Die meister des schachbretts)		1932	Horace Ransom Bigelow, Richard Réti, M. A. Schwendemann
Midget problems: all the ideas in position of 2 vs. 2 pieces in checkers		1913	William Timothy Call
Mitchell's guide to the game of chess: being a complete course of instruction for beginners		1915	David Andrew Mitchell
Modern billiards: A complete text-book of the game, containing plain and practical instructions how to play and acquire skill at this scientific amusement	New ed.	1908	Benjamin Garno
Modern chess: an introduction to the art of chess as played by the modern chess master		1935	Barnie F. Winkelman
Modern chess endings		1933	Barnie F. Winkleman
The money game, explaining fundamental finance: a new instrument of economic education		1929	Norman Angell
More guessing contests, "Dame Curtsey,"		1912	Ellye Howell Glover
Mother Goose finger plays		1915	Irene Margaret Cullison
Murder in your home		1932	Elisabeth Cobb. Chapman, Grantland Rice, Elisabeth Cobb
My book of parties		1928	Madeline Snyder
My chess career		1920	José Raúl Capablanca
My system: a chess treatise		1929	Aron Nimzowitsch, Philip Hereford
My system: a chess treatise		1930	Aron Nimzowitsch, Philip Hereford
"Mysteries of dama"		1922	Julius D'Orio
Mysteries of dama	2d ed. (rev.)	1926	Julius D'Orio
Naming quintuplets		1935	III Joseph Bryan
Nature and outdoor life		1927
Nature games book		1941	Elmo N. Stevenson
Nature recreation: group guidance for the out-of-doors	1st ed.	1940	William Gould Vinal
The new Hoyle: standard games including all modern card games, new laws of contract bridge and new scoring rules, chess, checkers, backgammon, camelot, ping pong, bowling, billiards, pool, etc		1936	Edmond Hoyle, Paul Henry Seymour
The new Hoyle: standard games, news law of contract bridge and new scoring rules, chess, checkers, backgammon, camelot, ping pong, bowling, billiards, pool, etc		1934	Edmond Hoyle, Paul Henry Seymour
Nouveau manuel d'échecs du débutant		1935	André. Chéron
One hundred mass play games		1921	Francis Seymour Wyatt
The organization and administration of playgrounds and recreation		1927	Jay Bryan Nash
Ourdoor sports and games		1911	Claude Harris Miller
Outdoor stunts for young and old		1920	Arthur Howard Strouse
Outdoor stunts for young and old		1926	Arthur Howard Strouse
An outline of physical education for primary and grammar schools, junior high schools, and high schools		1917	Ernst Hermann
An outline of physical education for the first and second grades		1930	Leonora Andersen, Florence McKinley
Parlor games and parties for young and old: amusement ideas for all the family all the year		1916	Carleton B. (Carleton Britton) Case
Parties for occasions		1925	Claire Wallis, Nellie Ryder Gates
Parties: the complete party book from invitation to goodbye		1937	Hazel Carter Maxon
Pastimes for sick children and rainy day occupations for those who are well		1926	Hope Whitten, Henry Dwight Chapin, Mrs Mary Street Whitten
Phunology: a collection of tried and proved plans for play, fellowship, and profit		1920	Elvin Oscar Harbin
Physical education complete for schools and playgrounds		1915	Lavinia Hendey KauU, Lavinia Mary. Hendey
Physical education for elementary schools		1930	Neils Peter Neilson, Winifred Van Hagen
Physical education play activities for girls in junior and senior high schools		1938	Therese Powdermaker