Yudishe mayselekh, heft I, by F. Heilpern. Published by "Бокштейнь" (Bukstein), Moscow, 1917. Yiddish.
A booklet with two short tales for children by Falk Heilpern. Illustrated cover and initials designed by Ben-Zion Zuckerman (1890-1944), a Jewish painter who perished in the holocaust.
22, [1] pp, 16 cm. Good condition. Ink stamp to two first leaves. Pen inscriptions to first leaf. Creases. Folds at corners of most of the leaves. Foxing to cover and to first leaf. Wear and slight tears to margins of cover.

A game with cubes for composing pictures and words. [Germany, first half of 20th century?]. Forty-two wooden cubes (some with illustrations and some with letters), and six boards with a picture in color and characters. The player has to compose the picture using the colorful cubes and compose related words scattered on the boards using the cubes with characters.
Inserted in original wooden box. One playing board is mounted on the box.
Ink-stamp "Made in Germany" appears within the box.
Good-fair condition. Boards with creases and slight tears. Slight damageto cubes. Box in fair-poor condition. Detached cover, horizontal break in the center. Horizontal break to body of box. Stains. Tears and damage to box, mainly slight.

Three board games by "B. Barlevi", (Binyamin Barlevi. Tel-Aviv, [1930 – 1940s].
1. "Number Lotto", [ca. 1930s]. Publication no. 9. The game includes: a dozen colorful (small) playing boards, 90 wooden pieces with numbers, a pouch to shuffle the pieces and an instructions card. Inserted in the original cardboard box.
2. "Souvenir" (several games), [1930s]. Publication no. 32. Contains a board (illustrated on both sides), 32 chess pieces, 23 draughts pieces (out of 24), 31 Mikado sticks, 28 domino pieces and a leaf with instructions for two of the games. Inserted in the original cardboard box. Enclosed are later playing pieces. Some original pieces are lacking.
3. "Concern", [1940]. Publication no. 132. The game includes: A playing board in color, two dice, six pawns, a dozen hotels, 32 houses, 29 ownership cards, 16 "Order" cards, 16 "Surprise" cards, 50 notes in the value of 100, 20 notes in the value of 500, and an instructions leaf. Inserted in the original cardboard box.
Size and condition vary. Overall fair-good condition.

The Play Primer. Translated from the original by Tom Seidmann-Freud. Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman, 1932. English.
English reading and writing tutorial book (an unauthorized translation from German), based on "Hurra, Wir lesen! Hurra, Wir schreiben!" ["Hooray, We Read! Hooray, We Write!"], the first didactic book written by Tom Seidmann-Freud. Black and white illustrations by Seidmann-Freud, for coloring, and worksheets for practicing reading and writing letters and words.
32 pp, 25 cm. Good condition. Some creases to cover. Faint writing and erasing marks to first page.