Search Results: LEISURE & HOBBIES from Bookhome Sydney

Sydney: Parramatta Lapidary Club, 1980. Reprint ed.. Paperback small quarto, card covers, stapled, very good condition, black & white drawings, few tiny scratches front cover, minor edgewear. 44 pp. Margaret Jamieson and Phyl Procter explain the simple craft of copper embossing using copper shim, a few common tools and materials, and a lively imagination.

Golden Square, Bendigo, VIC: Crown Castleton, 1996. Revised ed.. Paperback trade, very good plus condition, stapled pamphlet, many black & white & colour text-photos, glossy paper, minor edgewear. 64 pp. Ken Arnold, a Victorian dealer in collectibles, provides a guide to a wide variety of old Australian tin cans, such as those used for storing tea, tobacco and biscuits - including estimated dollar values. Revised and updated edition, copyright 1996.

Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 1995. 1st ed.. Paperback large wide quarto, very good condition, colour photos, corner tips covers little scuffed, bottom corner front cover & top corner rear cover little creased, spine ends slightly rubbed, minor edgewear, small mark across fore-edges (possible remainder mark). 157 pp. In this reference book there are 1475 individual board games presented in colour photos dating from 1940s through the 1980s, along with interesting text and their memorabilia and advertising. The man who invented the game Cootie is featured with his many other game inventions. Of considerable interest to toy dealers, collectors and past players

Berkeley, CA: Ulysses Press, 2020. Paperback small trade, very good plus condition, black & white drawings (puzzles). 192 pp. This fascinating helpful book by Dr Gareth Moore has 200 classic Japanese square puzzles designed to improve specific mental skills, including: Hitori Mental Agility, Kakuro Numerical Skills, Purenrupu Reasoning, Slitherlink Concentration, Numberlink Observation, Akarei Creative Thinking. This book will challenge, and delight brain trainers or people new to puzzling.

Sydney, Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin, 2013. 1st ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, fore-edge two pages lightly scuffed, top corner one page folded, edges & pages lightly toned, minor edgewear. 308 pp. This book gives the history of 100 years of clues, visiting countries across the world looking for stories. There are almost 100 mini-chapters, each with a clue to help. This book is for people who love puzzles and words that take in the life around them.

Hobart: Platypus Publications, 1969. 1st ed.. Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), tan cloth board (gilt title on spine), black & white text-photos, table, faint foxing reverse side jacket (light foxing rear cover, spine little faded, lightly rubbed, some edgewear, small closed tear top edge), edges & white endpapers lightly foxed, erratum slip tipped in at title page 112 pp. This book by Roger McNeice relates to the currency, both metal and paper, used in Van Diemens Land (later Tasmania) from 1803 to 1910, after the separation from New South Wales. Includes the problems the governors had to contend with in regard to currency, and how they solved them. Written by the founder and past secretary of the Tasmanian Numismatic Society. SCARCE.

Secaucus, NJ: Lyle Stuart, Inc, 1983. 1st ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, good plus condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white frontispiece, black & white & colour text-photos, minor edgewear jacket (light crease rear flap, minor edgewear, top spine jacket creased, light scuff & thinned mark title page (label removed). Heavy, and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. . 192 pp. Jean Bach has drawn upon her own extensive collection and on the resources of Sotheby and Christies, two of the world's most renowned auction houses, to compile this visual and documentary record of the treasures, both common and rare, available today to collectors of German-made dolls. The book has 250 illustrations and over 500 dolls are discussed. First edition stated.

London: Bell & Hyman, 1979. 2nd ed.. Paperback wide octavo, very good condition, black & white text-photos, spine lightly faded & creased, top edge lightly foxed, faint toning pages, covers lightly marked, minor edgewear cover corners, written name inside front cover. 176 pp. A illustrated look at the fascinating hobby of photograph collecting. How to date and recognise a photograph accurately. A short history of photography, discussing famous and unknown photographers, unusual photographs, how to date and value your photographs, and collecting and preserving old photographs. Second or revised edition.

Sydney: New South / University of New South Wales Press, 2008. 1st ed.. Paperback small quarto, very good condition, colour text-illustrations, minimal edgewear. 188 pp. This book is a lively account of a year in the life of a collector. The author is a TV presenter on the ABC-TV program "Collectors".

Sydney: Cyclops & Lines Bros (Aust.), 1959. Paperback oblong large quarto, stapled pamphlet, very good condition, pictorial cover, black & white & single-colour photos, minor edgewear. 28 pp. A delightful illustrated catalogue of toys made by this Australian company, Cyclops & Lines Bros of Leichhardt, NSW (manufacturers of toys and baby carriages). Loosely inserted: Toy Price List, dated 1 July 1959 (4p).

Grantsville, MD: Hobby House Press, 1997. Paperback large quarto, very good plus condition, black & white & colour photos, minimal edgewear. 144 pp. This unique comprehensive identification and price guide by Jean Mahan provides pertinent information about manufacturers and furniture with specifics about dimension sizes, packaging details, what dolls were marketed with what furniture and detailed photos. A wonderful reference book for any collector of dolls.

Sydney, Frenchs Forest: New Holland, 2000. Paperback wide trade, very good condition, black & white drawings, colour photos, minor edgewear. 132 pp. This book is compact and practical, describing everything needed to survive and enjoy your camping adventure. Equipment and technology, safety and first aid, environmental awareness and the laws of camping, things to do, are all listed. The photos and drawings make this a special book for anyone interested in safe camping.

Sydney: Simon & Schuster, 1994. Australian, reprint ed.. Paperback square quarto, very good condition, colour text-photos, spine minimally faded, crease front cover, minor edgewear. 176 pp. Alternate title: The Encyclopeadia of Wood Working Techniques. Jeremy Broun provides a unique A-Z of practical woodworking techniques, plus guidance on how best to use them.

London: Ward, Lock & Co, 1939. 1st ed.. Hardback small, dustjacket, good condition (in fair dustjacket), edges toned & lightly foxed, pages lightly toned (few lightly foxed), edge tears jacket (small loss corners, piece missing spine ends, flap price-clipped, reverse side foxed), tear bottom edge one page, inner hinge little split (pages firm), few pencil ticks, old price marks, written names front pastedown, protected by removable semiarchival plastic sleeve. 128 pp. First edition. A book useful for organisers of socials, hotel and shipboard entertainments, and also helpful to the giver of the most modest of house parties.

London: Brooke Bond Oxo Ltd / World Wildlife Fund (WWF), 1975. Paperback oblong, stapled pamphlet, very good condition, picture cards tipped in (pasted in), front cover creased. 16 pp. Consists of a set of 40 picture tea cards (complete set) in a booklet to inform about key technological inventions, such as the telephone and the steam engine. Brooke Bond is renowned for the attractive picture cards given away in packets of tea. Estimated date: 1975 (Brooke Bond Collectables website). .

London: B. T. Batsford, 1990. Paperback small octavo, very good condition, figures, pages lightly toned, minor edgewear, sticker mark front free flyleaf. 154 pp. This book shows how Kasparov's opening chess systems have evolved, and how his efforts have frequently caused established chess theory to be rewritten. Many games are analysed, covering a wide range of openings.

Bendigo, VIC: Crown Castleton, 2008. New ed.. Paperback large quarto, very good condition, black & white & colour text-photos, orange cover, glossy paper, minor edgewear. 128 pp. A collector's guide to kitchen, dairy, cast iron, and laundry items. From the foreword by author Ken Arnold: "As both the 'Cast Iron' and 'Kitchenalia' books in the A5 size are now out of print, the book has been reformatted and combined into the one book. Some sections have been deleted as they no longer fall into the field of Kitchenalia. Laundry and dairy related items that can be found in the home or close by have been added. There are now many new photos and collectables”.

London: B. T. Batsford, 1976. 1st ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), coloured top edge, black & white diagrams, fore-edge lightly marked, boards little faded, reverse side jacket lightly foxed (minor edgewear), minor foxing endpapers. 179 pp. This book carefully presents the various plans available to both Black and White: they are illustrated by more than 100 complete chess games. The final section shows Black how to combat the Staunton Gambit and the other irregular attacks by which White may try to avoid the Leningrad. Written by a British international correspondence chess player and an experienced teacher of the game.

Golden Square, Bendigo, VIC: Crown Castleton, 1993. Paperback trade, stapled pamphlet, very good plus condition, many black & white text-photos, top edge little creased. 64 pp. A second guide by Ken Arnold to a wide variety of old Australian tin cans, such as those used for storing tea, tobacco and biscuits - including estimated dollar values. All new collection.

Melbourne: E. W. Cole, 1915. Paperback small trade, good condition, pages lightly toned, light foxing edges & few pages, slight loss spine ends, ridges in spine (due to binding), bottom corner front cover creased, covers lightly foxed & little soiled, some edgewear, rubber stamp (digits) title page, bookshop sticker, owner's name in pencil on flyleaf. 133 pp. This fascinating collectible book has a lot of games and suggestions for novelty evenings. (No date, but 1910s, Trove.).