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  • The indoor games book; card and table games for all the family; illustrated by Neil Hyslop.

    • Text
    • [London] Faber [1973]
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text JFD 74-6286Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Victorian parlour games for today / compiled by Patrick Beaver.

    • Text
    • London : P. Davies, 1974.
    • 1974
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text JFF 75-599Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Ainslie's complete Hoyle / by Tom Ainslie ; ill. by Jill Schwartz.

    • Text
    • New York : Simon and Schuster, [1975]
    • 1975
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text *R-RMRR GV1243 .A34 1975Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference

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  • The indoor league / [by] Sid Waddell and John Meade ; [photographs by Paul Stokes et al.].

    • Text
    • London [etc] : Pan Books, 1975.
    • 1975
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text JFC 76-2023Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Gyles Brandreth's complete book of home entertainment.

    • Text
    • Aylesbury : Shire Publications, 1974.
    • 1974
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text JFD 76-4847Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Brandreth's party games : 150 games for adults of all ages / Gyles Brandreth.

    • Text
    • London, Eyre Methuen, 1972.
    • 1972
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text JFD 80-3292Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Little sports : the official rules of insignificant indoor rivalries / Dan Carlinsky and Ed Goodgold ; illustrations by Fred Enfield.

    • Text
    • New York : McGraw-Hill, c1990.
    • 1990
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text JFD 90-2876Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Indoor games for two players / Hubert Phillips.

    • Text
    • London : Arco Publications, 1961.
    • 1961
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text C-12 3946Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • 838 ways to amuse a child; crafts, hobbies, and creative ideas for the child from six to twelve. Drawings by Beryl Bennett.

    • Text
    • New York, Harper [1960]
    • 1960
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text D-13 667Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Book of home entertainment.

    • Text
    • Cleveland : World Pub. Co., [1961]
    • 1961
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text E-11 5819Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • The new complete Hoyle ; the official rules of all popular games of skill and chance with the most authoritative advice on winning play, by Albert H. Morehead, Richard L. Frey [and] Geoffrey Mott-Smith.

    • Text
    • Garden City, N.Y., Garden City Books [1956]
    • 1956
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text JFD 97-15254Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Comus. Een nieuw gezelschapsboek, tot opwekking van den vrolijken geest, en ter bevordering van aangenaam onderhoud. (Naar het hoogduitsch.)

    • Text
    • Amsterdam, W. de Grebber, 1845.
    • 1845
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text MZC [RBS] 97-860 (Comus)Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • Amusement for invalids / compiled by Annie B. Henshaw.

    • Text
    • Boston : Loring, c1870.
    • 1870
    • 1 Item

    Available Online

    http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hwiien
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text MZMH (Henshaw, A. B. Amusement for invalids)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Six degrees of Kevin Bacon / Craig Fass, Mike Ginelli, and Brian Turtle.

    • Text
    • New York, NY : Plume, c1996.
    • 1996
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text MWES (Bacon, K.) 99-1020Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • Gesellschaftsspiele [microform]. Gesammelt und hrsg. von Hermann Pfeiffer.

    • Text
    • Leipzig, P. Reclam [1920]
    • 1920
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Microform *Z MV p.v. 232-239Offsite
  • The book of fun, mirth, and mystery : a feast of delightful entertainment, including games, tricks, puzzles and solutions, "how to makes," and various other means of amusement / by R.A. Hummerston.

    • Text
    • London : C. Arthur Pearson, 1924.
    • 1924-
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text MZC (Hummerston, R. A. Book of fun, mirth & mystery)Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • Evening party amusements [microform] : comprising an endless variety of amusements and games suitable either for the parlor or drawing-room, to which is appended general directions for the getting-up of shadow pantomimes, charades, tableaux, etc., etc.

    • Text
    • New York : New York Popular Pub. Co., [188-?]
    • 1880-1889
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Microform *ZC-68Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • Recreation handbook for camp, conference, and community / by Roger E. Barrows.

    • Text
    • Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2001.
    • 2001
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text JFE 01-7574Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Das Buch der Spiele : über 500 Freizeitspiele für Erwachsene / Erhard Gorys.

    • Text
    • Stuttgart : Fackelverlag, [1976]
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text ReCAP 12-26782Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Parlor games : a collection of all kinds of games for amusement, entertainment, and instruction / by Helen E. Hollister.

    • Text
    • Philadelphia : Penn Pub. Co., 1910.
    • 1910
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text MZ (Hollister, Helen E. Parlor games)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Indoor games and activities. With 55 drawings by Sylvia S. Cassell.

    • Text
    • New York : Harper & Row, [c1960]
    • 1960
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text J 793 COffsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text J 793 COffsite
  • Chudesa-- da i tolʹko / tekst i risunki Borisa Virganskogo.

    • Text
    • [Leningrad] : Moloda︠i︡a gvardi︠i︡a, [1929?]
    • 1929
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text J-R 793 V Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Victorian parlor games / Patrick Beaver.

    • Text
    • Nashville : T. Nelson, [1978] c1974.
    • 1978
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text J 793 BOffsite
  • Songs jumping in my mouth : humanities activity guide for classroom or after-school programs / written by Pamela Brooke.

    • Text
    • Washington, D.C. : Songs Jumping In My Mouth, c1983.
    • 1983
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text JFF 11-1046Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • The merry circle : a book of new, graceful and intellectual games and amusements.

    • Text
    • London : J.C. Hotten, [1872?]
    • 1872
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text MZ (Bellew, C. Merry circle)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • More ways of entertaining your guests.

    • Text
    • Chicago : C.H. Sergel, [1913?]
    • 1913
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text MZ (Dickinson, D. More ways of entertaining your guests)Offsite
  • How to entertain your guests / collected by Dorothy Dickinson.

    • Text
    • London : Wells Gardner, Darton, 1911.
    • 1911
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MZ (Dickinson, D. How to entertain your guests)Offsite
  • Endless mirth and amusement. : a capital and clever collection of mirthful games, parlour pastimes, shadow plays, magic, conjuring, card tricks, chemical surprises, fireworks, forfeits, etc. / compiled and arranged by Charles Gilbert. ; Illustrated by George Cruikshank and others.

    • Text
    • London : Dean & Son ..., [1874]
    • 1874
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text MZ (Gilbert, Ch. Endless mirth and amusement)Offsite
  • Indoor and community games / by Sid G. Hedges.

    • Text
    • London : Methuen, 1939.
    • 1939
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text MZ (Hedges, Sid G. Indoor and community games)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Fireside amusements.

    • Text
    • London : William & Robert Chambers, [1870]
    • 1870
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text MZ (Fireside amusements)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Modern pastime, or, in-door amusements. : including ventriloquism--parlour magic--elelmentary gymnastics billiards--fun, and flirtation, forfeits, etc., etc.

    • Text
    • London : Frederick Warne and Co. Bedford Street, Covent Garden. ; New York : Scribner, Welford and Co., [1871?]
    • 1871
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text MZ (Modern pastime)Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Hoyle's games : containing laws & directions for playing the various games now prevalent ; with many improvements and additions.

    • Text
    • Halifax [Eng.] : Milner and Sowerby, [1825?]
    • 180
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text MZ (Hoyle's games. 1825)Offsite
  • Giuochi di sala per divertirsi nelle conversazioni.

    • Text
    • Firenze : A. Salani, 1896.
    • 1896
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text MZ (Salani. Giuochi di Sala. 1896)Offsite
  • Hoyle's games.

    • Text
    • New York : A.L. Burt Co., [c1931]
    • 1931
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text MZ (Foster, R. F. Hoyle's games)Offsite
  • The ultimate indoor games book : the 200 best boredom busters ever! / Veronika Alice Gunter.

    • Text
    • New York : Lark Books, c2005.
    • 2005
    • 1 Item

    Available Online

    http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip059/2005006054.html
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text J 793 GOffsite
  • Rainy days & Saturdays / by Linda Hetzer ; illustrated by Deborah Zemke.

    • Text
    • New York : Workman, c1995.
    • 1995
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text J 793.01 HSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Foster's complete Hoyle ; an encyclopedia of games, including illustrative hands and suggestions for good play.

    • Text
    • Philadelphia : Lippincott, [1963]
    • 1963
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text R794 F816Off-site
  • Mahjong : house rules from across the Asian diaspora / Nicole Wong ; photographs by Andria Lo ; illustrations by Helen Shewolfe Tseng.

    • Text
    • Berkeley, California : Hardie Grant North America, 2025.
    • 2025
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text GV1299.M3 W54 2025gOff-site
  • Foster's encyclopedia of games : including all the indoor games played at the present day : with suggestions for good play, a full code of laws... / R.F. Foster.

    • Text
    • New York : F.A. Stokes, c1897.
    • 1897
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text SG 3008.97Off-site
  • Gry i zabawy towarzyskie : wskazówki do przyjemnego i użytecznego spędzenia czasu w domu i po za domem : podręcznik dla młodzieży płci obojga / według najnowszych źródeł opracował Mieczysław Rościszewski.

    • Text
    • Warszawa : "Wiedza Powszechna", 1991.
    • 1991-1900
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text GV1229 .R67 1991 Off-site
  • Hospital and bedside games / by Neva L. Boyd.

    • Text
    • Chicago : Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy, c1919.
    • 1919
    • 1 Item

    Available Online

    http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.FIG:004682423
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text Off-site
  • Amusement for invalids / compiled by Annie B. Henshaw.

    • Text
    • Boston : Loring, c1870.
    • 1870
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text SG 3195.14Off-site
  • In and out door games, with suggestions for entertainments.

    • Text
    • New York, Sully and Kleinteich [c1904]
    • 1904
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text SG 3009.04Off-site
  • Dynamite; or, What do people think about you? by Doris Webster and Mary Alden Hopkins.

    • Text
    • New York, London, D. Appleton-Century Company, Incorporated, 1937.
    • 1937
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text SG 4123.1.25Off-site
  • New games in old Rome / Reiner Knizia ; English edition by Ken Tidwell and Kevin Jacklin ; illustrated by Franz Vohwinkel.

    • Text
    • Aldershot : Reaching Moon Megacorp, c1996.
    • 1996
    • 1 Item
  • To vivlion tōn synanastraphōn : paignia synanastrophōn, ta mystēria tōn magōn kai tachydaktylourgōn, ta thaumatourga paigniocharta, paignia pantoia, pros diaskedasin tōn oikogeneiakōn kyklōn.

    • Text
    • En Athēnais : Ekdotēs Geōrgios Kasdonēs [1893]
    • 1893
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text GV1469.7 V495 1912Off-site
  • Ainslie's complete Hoyle / by Tom Ainslie ; ill. by Jill Schwartz.

    • Text
    • New York : Simon and Schuster, [1975]
    • 1975
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text GV1243 .A34Off-site
  • Recreation handbook for camp, conference, and community / by Roger E. Barrows.

    • Text
    • Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2001.
    • 2001
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text GV1203 .B32 2001Off-site
  • Recreation handbook for camp, conference and community / Roger E. Barrows.

    • Text
    • Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2010.
    • 2010
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text GV1203 .B32 2010Off-site

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