Newton, A. Edward. This Book-Collecting Game

Newton, A. Edward. This Book-Collecting Game. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1928. First Edition, Second Printing. [5683] The second printing, issued in the same month as the first. Dark blue cloth spine with original paper title label, plain teal boards, top page edge gilt, 6 x 8 1/4 inches, pencil signature of Maud Jenks (Nov. 1928) on the ffep. Color frontispiece, (xi.), 410 clean and unmarked pp., many b/w illustrations. Near fine. Hardcover. "Book-collecting. It's a great game. Anybody with ordinary intelligence can play it: there are, indeed, people who think it takes no brains at all; their opinion may be ignored. No great amount of money is required, unless one becomes very ambitious. It can be played at home or abroad, alone or in company: it can even be played by correspondence. Everyone playing it can make his own rules - and change them during the progress of the game. It is not considered 'cricket' to do this in other games." - p. 1.Alfred Edward Newton (1864-1940), b. &