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First US printing. A book for older children - or even adults - which explores the changing fashions in recreation - from traditional ones like board games and puzzles to temporarily fashionable ones like magic lanterns, tropes and scopes, autophone, etc - and to enduring ones like photography and phonographs. Also includes a chapter on mechanical applications, like player pianos and on mechanical toys. Slightly oversized format, profusely illustrated with black and white photographs and drawings. A title in the Discoveries and Inventions series. Bibliography, index. 64 pages. Fine (a new copy) in glossy illustrated boards. .ISBN # 0-195210018 

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