Games Books

The Game of Go - The National Game of Japan

Arthur Smith

This book is intended as a practical guide to the game of Go. It is especially designed to assist students of the game who have acquired a smattering of it in some way and who wish to investigate it f..

A Gamekeeper's Note-book

Owen Jones

A gamekeeper's notes are written for the most part on the tablets of his mind. He is a man of silence; yet he is ever ready to unlock the casket of his memories if old friends, and sympathetic, are ab..

The Japanese New Year’s Festival, Games and Pastimes

Helen Cowen Gunsaulus

The Japanese prints with which we are most familiar in this country are those known as nishikiye, literally “brocade picture.” Generally speaking, they are portraits of actors and famous beauties or l..

Jackson's Gymnastics for the Fingers and Wrist

Edwin Ward Jackson

The subject of this little work develops, on anatomical and physiological principles, a system of Gymnastics for the Fingers and Wrist, the object of which is—, to lay a solid and scientific foundatio..

Cousin Lucy at Play

Jacob Abbott

There was a box, or chest, of a somewhat singular character, in the house where Lucy lived; it was called the marble box. It was not really made of marble; it was made of wood; but then it was painted..