Draiper’s Six Hundred Ways to Make Money. A reliable Compendium of valuable Receipts for making articles in constant demand and of ready sale, carefully selected from private sources and the best established authorities. By Edmund S. Draiper, Professor of Analytical Chemistry, etc. This Collection of Receipts is undoubtedly the most valuable and comprehensive that has ever been offered to the public in so cheap a form.
144 pages, paper cover 30 cts.
The Language of Flowers. A complete dictionary of the Language of Flowers, and the sentiments which they express. Well arranged and comprehensive in every detail. All unnecessary matter has been omitted. This little volume is destined to fill a want long felt for a reliable book at a price within the reach of all.
Paper 15 cts.
Chilton’s One Thousand Secrets and Wrinkles. A book of hints and helps for every-day emergencies. Containing 1,000 useful hints and receipts. No family should be without this little storehouse of valuable information.
Paper covers 30 cts.
The Ladies’ Love Oracle. A Complete Fortune Teller of all questions upon Love, Courtship and Matrimony.
30 cts.
Trumps’ 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 method of playing. By Trumps. Thirteenth edition; illustrated with numerous diagrams. This work is designed and acknowledged as an authority on all games as played in America, being a guide to the correct methods of playing and an arbiter on all disputed points. In each of the previous editions the work was subjected to careful revision and correction; but this, the Thirteenth Edition, is Entirely New, and re-written from the latest reliable sources. It includes an exhaustive treatise on Whist, with all the latest essays on the modern game, by Clay, Pole, Drayson, &c., &c. Also, a lucid description of all the games now in vogue in America, with the laws that govern them, revised and corrected to conform to present usages, and embraces an elaborate and practical analysis of the Doctrine of Chances. 12mo., cloth, 536 pages.
Price $2.00
Dick’s Games of Patience; or, Solitaire with Cards. Containing Forty-three Games. Illustrated with Thirty-three explanatory full-page Tableaux. This treatise on Solitaire, a pastime which is steadily gaining in popularity, embraces a number of new and original Games, and all the Games of Patience at present in favor with the most experienced players. Each game is carefully and lucidly described, with the distinctive rules to be observed and hints as to the best means of success in play. The Tableaux furnish efficient aid in rendering the disposition of the cards necessary to each game plain and easily comprehensible. The difficulty usually attending descriptions of intricate games is reduced, as far as possible, by precision in method and terseness of expression in the text, and the illustrations serve to dispel any possible ambiguity that might be unavoidable without their aid. The work is attractive in style and will prove an interesting companion for many a solitary hour. Quarto. Illustrated.
Paper cover 75 cts.
Cloth $1.00
Blackbridge’s Complete Poker Player. A Practical Guidebook to the American National Game; containing mathematical and experimental analyses of the probabilities of Draw Poker. By John Blackbridge, Actuary. This, as its title implies, is an exhaustive treatise on Draw Poker, giving minute and detailed information on the various chances, expectations, possibilities and probabilities that can occur in all stages of the game, with directions and advice for successful play, deduced from actual practice and experience, and founded on precise mathematical data.
Small quarto, 142 pages, paper 50 cts.
Bound in full cloth $1.00
The Modern Pocket Hoyle. By “Trumps.” Containing all the games of skill and chance, as played in this country at the present time, being an “authority on all disputed points.” This valuable manual is all original, or thoroughly revised from the best and latest authorities, and includes the laws and complete directions for playing one hundred and eleven different games.
388 pages, paper covers 50 cts.
Bound in boards, with cloth backs 75 cts.
Hoyle’s Games. A complete Manual of the laws that govern all games of skill and chance, including Card Games, Chess, Checkers, Dominoes, Backgammon, Dice, Billiards, as played in this country at the present time, and all Field Games. Entirely original, or thoroughly revised from the latest and best American authorities.
Paper covers 50 cts.
Boards 75 cts.