Two books of Lewis Carroll Puzzles, compiled by Edward Wakeling, published in 1992 and 1995 by Dover books. Lewis Carroll Games and Puzzles in 1992 (80 pages) in very good condition, and Rediscovered Lewis Carroll Puzzles in 1995, also 80 pages and in very good condition. No creases, some light soiling at the page edges.

The Snark Puzzle Book, by Martin Gardner, hardbound with dust jacket, 1st edition and 1st printing, 1973, Simon and Schuster in good condition. There's a stamp on the bottom of the book on the page edges, and light soiling and foxing on the cover. Very slight warping of the boards front and back. DJ is good with no creases, but light soiling and a tiny 1/8" tear at the top front."My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles", Dover publ., 1994, also by Martin Gardner, in excellent condition.

"Games for the Super Intelligent" and "More Games for the Superintelligent" by Jame F. Fixx. These books are full of interesting puzzles, and both books are hardbound with dust jackets. "Games" DJ is a little nicked, maybe VG condition, while "More Games" is slightly better. Both books are in fine condition. Games for the Superintelligent is published 1972 by Playboy Enterprises, there's no price on the inside cover, and no mention of an "edition". It's 86 pages long. More Games for ...

Puzzles 101, a book of 101 diverse and interesting puzzles by Nobuyuki Yoshigahara. Published in 2004 by A.K. Peters. Paperback. Very nice condition. Fun puzzles.

Five paperback books of riddles. Riddles, Ancient and Modern is a somewhat scholarly approach to riddles, published by Peter Bedrick Books in 1984. Includes over 709 riddles, mostly classical. Book in very good condition, but has a crease in the cover and a price tag on the cover. 204 pages..Riddles, Riddles, Riddles is a Dover book edited by Darwin Hindman, 1997, featuring 60 pages of really silly riddles of the "watch time fly" variety. Book in excellent condition.Lair of the Sphinx, Riddle of...

The Moscow Puzzles, by Boris A. Kordemsky. Book is in good condition, but the cover is a bit dinged up and the page-edges are starting to yellow. Published by Penguin/Pelican Books, 1981 edition, edited by Martin Garder, cover price 2.25 pounds sterling. Contains 359 mathematical recreations, just about every sort you can imagine.

Mint Condition Copy of Professor Hoffman's Puzzles Old & New Book. This printing was done in 1997. Very Hard to Find. 394 pages Lots of illustrations! "Buyer to pay shipping; postage cost to be determined at end of auction depending on purchaser location" $4.00 book Shipping, $10.00 Fedex second day insured. US

"The Puzzling Adventures of Dr. Ecco by Dennis Shasha, published in 1988 by W.H. Freeman & Co, with dust jacket. ISBN 0716719584. Dust jacket is yellowed with a 3" crease on the back and a small tear at the spine, with wear around the edges (see picture). The book itself is in excellent shape. Listed as "recreational mathematics". Cover price $15.95.

This little book, Mathematical Puzzles (and other Brain Teasers) by Anthony Filipiak, is chock-full of nifty puzzles. Published in 1942 by Bell Publishing Company, though this book only has 120 pages, it features a large number of mechanical puzzle designs, with sliding block puzzles (one has over 400 moves), string puzzles, burr puzzles, dexterity, kumiki puzzles, bolt-and-washer and peg puzzles. The book has no dust jacket, and has a moisture-stain on the first couple of pages (see photo). The...

"aha! Gotcha" (Paradoxes to puzzle and delight) by Martin Gardner, paperback 1982 W.H. Freeman and Co. publishers. Very good condition, average wear. Some sun-fading on the spine."Perplexing Puzzles and Tantalizing Teasers", hardbound, 1969 Simon and Schuster, ex-library book with the usual library markings and inside pocket. Good condition. No writing in the text.

This little book (62 pages) from 1957 is in very good condition with an unexpectedly nice dust jacket; a little dirty, however (see photo). Cover price on the DJ is $1.00. Printed by the Peter Pauper Press, edited by Phillip Haber, illustrated by Stanley Wyatt. Almost all verbal math problems of various sorts. Book is about 4"x7" and weighs 5 ounces.

Two Dover paperbacks by H. E. Dudeney. The Canterbury Puzzles is copyright 1958, listed 4th edition, fairly worn around the edges and spine, with a store's stamp on the title page. A solid copy, however. The second book, Amusements in Mathematics, is in much better condition with a slightly yellowed cover, 258 pages of very small print and lots of Dudeney's classic puzzles (numbering in the book goes up to 430). Also listed as copyright 1958 with a cover price of $1.25. Total weight of both boo...

101 Amusements for All, by Charles F. Bishop, MMC, published around 1953 by Faber and Faber. No dust jacket, average wear. Small piece of tape on inside front cover, some pencil marks in the body of the book. Features an interesting variety of 101 word, math, and riddle puzzles. The book doesn't actually have a publication date in it, but someone wrote a date in the front cover, in pencil, so it was published 1953 or earlier. It has 84 pages.

Puzzle Parade by Morley Adams, published in 1948 by Faber and Faber. This little hardbound is in very good condition, with the exception of the dust jacket which is poor, with a couple of pieces missing out of the spine, heavy wear, and a bit missing out of the bottom back cover. After I took the photo, I enclosed the DJ in a Brodart cover. There is an interesting variety of puzzles in here, including Five Minute Mysteries, Crosswords, math puzzles, word puzzles and other unusual picture puzzles...

This is a group of four paperbacks of "lateral thinking puzzles." "Test Your Lateral Thinking IQ" by Paul Sloan, fine condition, 94 pages. Published by Sterling Publishing.Lateral Logic Puzzles, by Erwin Brecher, very good condition with some mild cover wear, 96 pages.Improve Your Lateral Thinking (Puzzles to Challenge your Mind), Paul Sloane and Des MacHale, 96 pages, 1995, very good condition.Lateral Thinking Puzzles, Paul Sloane, 1992, poor condition, some pages loose from spine (but they are...

The Mensa Puzzle Book is a compendium of A Mensa Puzzle Book and A Second Mensa Puzzle Book. 200-some puzzles. This is a hardbound book, has no DJ (don't think it had one to start with, but I don't know), published in 1991 by Treasure Press. Cover has a few small dings, but is very good overall. Pages starting to yellow.

"Merlin Book of Logic Puzzles" by Margaret C. Edmiston and "Amazing Logic Puzzles" by Norman D. Willis. Both published by Sterling Publishing Co. in 1992 and 1994 respectively. Both paperbacks, and obviously both full of an interesting variety of logic puzzles. Both 128 pages long, "Merlin" has a small crease in the corner of the front cover, "Amazing" is in fine condition.

Mint Condition Copy of Professor Hoffman's Puzzles Old & New Book. This printing was done in 1997. Very Hard to Find. 394 pages Lots of illustrations! "Buyer to pay shipping; postage cost to be determined at end of auction depending on purchaser location" $4.00 book Shipping, $10.00 Fedex second day insured. USOn Jun. 16, 2008 09:11:41, the following description has been added:This book is available for international shipping. thank you.

The Amazing Rope-Rings: Illustrative Designs of 50 Intellectual Rope-Ring Toys by Wang Zong Yi (c) 2003, Shenyang Press. Paperback, 140mm x 205mm, 230 pp. (incl. 8 pp. with color photos of puzzles). This book contains very detailed illustrations and solutions of 50 (both old and new) disentanglement puzzles. The text is in Chinese with some English (well, some sort of) but the drawings are very clear so that you make the designs yourself. In fact there is not that much text in the ...

A good copy of the original 1893 edition of Puzzles Old and New published by Frederick Warne. Good points - Binding is reasonable tight and all pages are complete. Less good points the edges of the pages are yellowed and the book cover show some knocks but for a book over 100 years old it's in pretty good nick. Postage costs will be around $10 within Europe and $20 worldwide.