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1 ANGELL, Norman. The Money Game. How to Play It. A New Instrument of Economic Education. London & Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1928 A PRECURSOR OF MONOPOLY First edition, second printing (a month after the first), of this striking instructional game-book, designed by the British economist and Nobel laureate to teach schoolchildren the fundamentals of finance and banking. It is rare in the dust jacket. Published after 16 years of private trial and error, the game “had been elaborately tested on adults, including the philosopher and educationalist John Dewey in addition to friends Lippmann and Wrench, as well as on a younger generation, including ‘long- suffering nieces and nephews’ . . . This first version
was produced as a substantial hardback volume, containing 168 pages of endorsements, explanation, and rules, with the back part hollowed out as a container for cards and notes. It was novel, and may conceivably have influenced the board game ‘Monopoly’, which appeared six years later . . . when it appeared in late November 1928, with the Christmas market in mind, its first edition of 2,000 was exhausted in three weeks” (Ceadel, p. 271). Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered and stamped in gilt, original set of game pieces and cards housed in a cardboard game box bound in at rear. With dust jacket. Short split at head of front inner hinge, a very good copy in good jacket, chipping at extremities with minor loss, without repair or restoration, price intact. ¶ Martin Ceadel, Living the Great Illusion: Sir Norman Angell, 1872–1967 , 2009. £1,250 [152926] LINDSAY, & Norman. Women in Parliament. London: The Fanfrolico Press, 1929 First and signed limited edition, number 88 of 500 copies signed by the translator. 2 ARISTOPHANES; Jack Will Ransom noted that “a personal quality . . . of joyful seriousness . . . infuses the Fanfrolico Press, devoted chiefly to the work of Jack and Norman Lindsay”. This work was issued, as noted on the title page, “for sale to subscribers only”.
Folio. Original blue three quarter morocco and blue boards, spine lettered in gilt, front cover lettered and blocked in gilt, top edge gilt. 4 engraved plates, black and white illustrations in text, all by Norman Lindsay. Some light soiling to binding, minor bubbling of cloth on rear cover and minor chips, endpapers lightly browned; a near-fine copy. ¶ Ransom, “Fanfrolico”, 23. £750 [153919] 3 ARISTOTLE. [Opera omnia, in Greek.] Basle: J. Bebel, 1531 SUPERINTENDED BY ERASMUS A very desirable copy of the rare second collected edition of the complete works of Aristotle, the successor to the Aldine edition of 1495–98, in a contemporary pigskin binding in exceptional condition, the text annotated by a contemporary reader in an elegant humanist hand. The edition was superintended by Erasmus, and edited by Simon Grynaeus, professor of Greek at the University of Basel. In his introduction addressed to John More, the only son of Thomas More, Erasmus pays tribute to Aldus and his edition, but explains that the five volumes are now so expensive as to deter the young scholar, with few sets outside Italy, and now often broken up. The current collected edition offered a textually superior edition, in a more accessible single-volume format, at a cheaper price – a letter of Boniface Amerbach shows he had to pay 12 crowns for
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