Sam Loyd's cyclopedia of 5000 puzzles tricks and conundrums with answers

by Sam Loyd

$200 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

New York: The Lamb Publishing Company, 1914 . 4to, pp. 384; copious text illustrations including caricatures and stereotypes; full olive cloth; light soiling to bards, lower joint split, upper hinge cracked, text clean and sound, very good. Samuel Loyd was an American chess master, puzzle maker, and recreational mathematician. His puzzles were extremely popular, but many were likely plagiarized, including the famous 15 puzzle, which he claims to have invented

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