CHECKERS AND CHESS.
Spayth’s American Draught Player; or, The Theory and Practice of the Scientific Game of Checkers. Simplified and Illustrated with Practical Diagrams. Containing upwards of 1,700 Games and Positions. By Henry Spayth. Sixth edition, with over three hundred Corrections and Improvements. Containing: The Standard Laws of the Game—Full instructions—Draught Board Numbered—Names of the Games, and how formed—The “Theory of the Move and its Changes” practically explained and illustrated with Diagrams—Playing Tables for Draught Clubs—New Systems of numbering the Board—Prefixing signs to the Variations—List of Draught Treatises and Publications chronologically arranged. Bound in cloth, gilt side and back
$3.00
Spayth’s Game of Draughts. By Henry Spayth. This book is designed as a supplement to the author’s first work, “The American Draught Player”; but it is complete in itself. It contains lucid instructions for beginners, laws of the game, diagrams, the score of 364 games, together with 34 novel, instructive and ingenious “critical positions.” Cloth, gilt back and side
$1.50
Spayth’s Draughts or Checkers for Beginners. This treatise was written by Henry Spayth, the celebrated player, and is by far the most complete and instructive elementary work on Draughts ever published. It is profusely illustrated with diagrams of ingenious stratagems, curious positions and perplexing problems, and contains a great variety of interesting and instructive Games, progressively arranged and clearly explained with notes, so that the learner may easily comprehend them. With the aid of this Manual a beginner may soon become a proficient in the game. Cloth, gilt side
75 cts.
Scattergood’s Game of Draughts, or Checkers, Simplified and Explained. With practical Diagrams and Illustrations, together with a Checker-Board, numbered and printed in red. Containing the Eighteen Standard Games, with over 200 of the best variations, selected from various authors, with some never before published. By D. Scattergood. Bound in cloth, with flexible covers
50 cts.
Marache’s Manual of Chess. Containing a description of the Board and Pieces, Chess Notation, Technical Terms, with diagrams illustrating them, Laws of the Game, Relative Value of Pieces, Preliminary Games for Beginners, Fifty Openings of Games, giving all the latest discoveries of Modern Masters, with the best games and copious notes, Twenty Endings of Games, showing easiest ways of effecting Checkmate, Thirty-six ingenious Diagram Problems, and sixteen curious Chess Stratagems, being one of the best Books for Beginners ever published. By N. Marache.
Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.
Bound in cloth, gilt side 75 cts.
Lola Montez’ Arts of Beauty; or, Secrets of a Lady’s Toilet. With hints to Gentlemen on the Art of Fascinating. Lola Montez here explains all the Arts employed by the celebrated beauties and fashionable ladies in Paris and other cities of Europe, for the purpose of preserving their beauty and improving and developing their charms. The recipes are all clearly given, so that any person can understand them, and the work embraces the following subjects:
- How to obtain such desirable and indispensable attractions as A Handsome Form;
- A Bright and Smooth Skin;
- A Beautiful Complexion;
- Attractive Eyes, Mouth and Lips;
- A Beautiful Hand, Foot and Ankle;
- A Well-trained Voice;
- A Soft and Abundant Head of Hair;
- Also, How to Remedy Gray Hair;
- And harmless but effectual methods of removing Superfluous Hair and other blemishes, with interesting information on these and kindred matters.
Illuminated paper cover 25 cts.