Book Description

First edition, 1928. 168pp. Publisher's blue buckram boards with gilt device stamped to front and gilt lettering and pound symbols to spine. Lacking dust jacket. Slight rubbing to boards with some pushing and scuffing to corners. Box with game components affixed to rear. Complete with 100 industry playing cards (divided into 10 sets of the different industries), 2 insurance/ joker cards, 5 score sheets [of 8], and 150 original money cards (20x£1, 60x£10, 40x£4 and 30x£50s). Collated. All in excellent condition. *** A scarce complete copy of this precursor to the game Monopoly, written and devised by British economist and Nobel laureate Norman Angell (1872-1967). A book and a game in one. Copyrighted in 1912, but first published in 1928.
Author Angell, Norman
Date 1928
Binding Hardcover
Publisher J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd
Condition Very good

Price: £160.00

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