😺 SALE! 5 RARE PUZZLE BOOKS ~ US & UK ~ Vintage ~ 1977-1986 ~ Exc ~ GREAT GIFT!

Description: 😺 5 RARE PUZZLE BOOKS ~ US & UK ~ Vintage! 1977-1986 ~ Excellent Condition 5 RARE PUZZLE BOOKS ~ US & UK. Here are 5 vintage books and magazines of puzzles, problems, and brain treasers from some of the top people in the field. Here's what is included: The World's Best Puzzles by Charles Barry Townsend, trade paperback, 5¼" x 8¼", 128 pages, 1986, Sterling Publishing. Book has 102 of the world's best classic puzzles. You can test your puzzle-solving skills against the top puzzlers of the last 100 yeas. There's more puzzle variety here than in any other book—plenty of ammunition for your powers of deduction, observation, concentration, and memory. And the special answer section explains each trick and shows how to find the right solution. More Perplexing Puzzles and Tantalizing Teasers by Martin Gardner, illustrated by Laszlo Kubinyl, pocket book size, 114 pages, 1977, Archway Paperback. 46 puzzles carefully selected by the master, Martin Gardner, who says "to exercise your brain in a way that I guarantee you won't find boring." Fabulous illustrations by Laszlo Kubinyl that were loved by all the buyers of the first volume. Top Puzzles edited by David Pritchard and 4 other puzzle-crazy guys in the UK, 6" x 8½", 51 pages, 1981, ACH Publications, UK. This is Issue #2 of this new magazine for agile minds with 49 puzzles including a half dozen or so word puzzles having a decidedly British flavor. Solutions? Of course, but a few are competitions too with no solution until the next issue. The Problem Solver by David Wells, 6" x 8½", 16 pages, staple bound, 1981, London Game Consultants. Another UK publication, this one is aimed at school kids who have a fascination for math, logic, and crypto puzzles and problems. This is Bletchley Park stuff! There are 50 problems in this little book—but NO solutions! You're on your own! Games & Puzzles #43 edited by David Pritchard, A4 size, 52 pages, Dec 1975, Edu-Games, London, UK. If you've been a puzzler for any length of time, you certainly know the UK's leading magazine in the field with logic puzzles, mathematical puzzles, word puzzles, columns and articles on chess, crosswords, go, and oh, so much more. Here's a nice mid-70s vintage issue for your enjoyment. 100% of the proceeds of this sale go to Beyond the Walls (Charity) Make an offer! What do you have to lose? For shipping, I will send these 5 books by USPS Media Mail at the lowest current rate to any address in the USA. I'm not like some eBay sellers who build big profits into shipping and screw the buyer. Who am I? My web identity is SwapMeetDave, but I'm actually David Ahl, founder of Creative Computing, ex-editor of Military Vehicles, writer, incurable collector, and Christian. When you have time, take a look at my on-line carnival and flea market at SwapMeetDave.com, which is chock full of new clean jokes, patriotic pics, books, magazines, my bio, handyman humor, and other good stuff. I accept payments by check or PayPal. I ship the day I receive your payment or notification of payment from PayPal. Thank you!

Price: 10.95 USD

Location: Morristown, New Jersey

End Time: 2025-01-23T22:15:02.000Z

Shipping Cost: 5.38 USD