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Toys:

Tarasov, B.U. . MEKHNICHESKAYA IGRUSHKA SAMODELKA (MECHANICAL TOY CONSTRUCTION)
1937. Entirely in Russian. 8vo., 42pp., line drawings, color wraps with boy holding toy airplane aloft. Fair, leaves browned and brittle, wraps chipping on edges. (a13592)
$49.00 Maclagan, Robert Craif . THE GAMES AND DIVERSIONS OF ARGYLESHIRE
London 1901 1st Folklore Society. Hardcover. Octavo, 270pp., index, cloth. institution stamp on verso of front blank and on title page. VG, small stain around edges of blank end paper; cover cloth bright and crisp, excellent condition. Original book, not a reprint. (a16654)
$75.00(ephemera). TOURING (CHILDREN'S GAME)
Parker Brothers 1926. The famous automobile card game. Complete with 99 cards and all printed instructions. Each card has bw line drawing of an old car. In original colorful and quaint-looking pictorial box showing 4 passengers riding in a 1920s car. Box is 5x4x1 inches. Box a bit brown but intact. Some of the pictorial cover on the box has rubbed off in places but overall box is Good. Playing cards inside are like new but slightly warped. (a3137)
$45.00 (safety) . RECOMMENDED VOLUNTARY PRODUCT STANDARD TS 215b - TOY SAFETY
1975 U.S. Department of Commerce. 4to., 50pp., original printed wraps. Depository library stamp on cover and title; ink numbers on cover. VG plus. (a62652)
$25.00 Toy (Japanese children's alphabet blocks) . COLLECTION OF 44 REAL WOOD JAPANESE ALPHABET BLOCKS
Each block is 2x2 inches and 1/2 inch thick (5 x 5 x .5 cm) with kanji, roots and script on one side and color picture and label in western lettering and Japanese lettering on other side. Blocks are hard to date but appear to be about 70 years old. VG. Set of 44 blocks: (a67214)
$125.00(puzzle). mid-19th century CHROMOLITHOGRAPH PUZZLE OF 2 FRIGHTENED HORSES RUNNING AWAY FROM SPEEDING LOCOMOTIVE IN BACKGROUND
n.d. (c.1850). Puzzle measures 7x9 inches, 14 pieces (complete), full color, stiff cardboard. Early puzzle, most likely made before "jigsaw" interlocking became common in puzzle. Pieces not cut with interlocking tabs, but straight edge-geometric shapes. Hardcover. Ephemera. VG. Interesting social commentary of strangeness of new method of transportation which railroads introduced into life into what societies which had been predominantly agricultural. All pieces present; color is slightly faded. (a9893)
$65.00