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• A Playful Path (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2014), by Bernie DeKoven (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Toward a Ludic Architecture: The Space of Play and Games (text-only version; c2010), by Steffen P. Walz (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• The Book of Games, With Directions How to Play Them (Toronto: G.N. Morang, 1898), by Mary White (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Chess and Playing Cards: Catalog of Games and Implements for Divination Exhibited by the United States National Museum in Connection with the Department of Archaeology and Paleontology of the University of Pennsylvania at the Cotton States and International Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia, 1895 (Washington: GPO, 1898), by Stewart Culin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Games for Everybody (New York: Dodge Publishing Co., c1905), by Mary Christiana Hofmann (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
• Healthful Sports for Boys, by A. R. Calhoun (Gutenberg text)
• Healthful Sports for Boys (New York: Christian herald Bible house, c1910), by A. R. Calhoun, ed. by Theodore Waters
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• In and Out Door Games (New York: Sully and Kleinteich, c1904), by Mrs. Burton Kingsland (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Scouting Games (sixth edition), by Robert Baden-Powell (HTML at macscouter.com)
• Confidential Price-List and Telegraph Code (publisher's wholesale catalog; 1894), by McLoughlin Bros. (PDF at americanantiquarian.org)
• Entertainments for Home, Church and School, by Frederica Seeger, ed. by Theodore Waters (Gutenberg text)
• Mother Goose Finger Plays (Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs and Co., ca. 1915), by Irene Margaret Cullison (page images at LOC)
• The Mottoes and Commentaries of Friedrich Froebel's Mother Play (London: Edward Arnold, 1900), by Friedrich Fröbel, ed. by Susan E. Blow, trans. by Henrietta R. Eliot (PDF files at Roehampton)
• Wings and the Child: or, The Building of Magic Cities (New York and London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913), by E. Nesbit, illust. by George Barraud (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Dancing, Beauty, and Games (London: A. L. Humphreys, 1913), by Constance Stewart-Richardson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Manual Training-Play Problems: Constructive Work for Boys and Girls Based on the Play Interest (New York: Macmillan, 1917), by William S. Marten (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Mancala, the National Game of Africa (extract from the Report of the National Mseum, 1894; Washington: GPO, 1896), by Stewart Culin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Tabletop: Analog Game Design (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2011), ed. by Greg Costikyan and Drew Davidson (PDF with commentary at CMU)

• A Little Pretty Pocket-Book (first Worcester edition; Worcester, MA: Isaiah Thomas, 1787), contrib. by Isaiah Thomas (page images at LOC)

• The Study of Man (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons; London: Bliss, Sands, and Co., 1898), by Alfred C. Haddon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tiddledywink Tales (New York: R. H. Russell and Son, 1891), by John Kendrick Bangs, illust. by Charles Howard Johnson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Floor Games, by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text and Librivox audio)
• Floor Games (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1912), by H. G. Wells, illust. by J. R. Sinclair
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Kate Greenaway's Book of Games (London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., ca. 1890), by Kate Greenaway (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)

• Korean Games, With Notes on the Corresponding Games of China and Japan (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1895), by Stewart Culin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Analog Game Studies (full serial archives)

• Game Research Methods: An Overview (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, 2015), ed. by Petri Lankoski and Staffan Bjork (PDF with commentary at CMU)

• Game Research Methods: An Overview (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, 2015), ed. by Petri Lankoski and Staffan Bjork (PDF with commentary at CMU)

• David Ahl's BASIC Computer Adventures (1986), by David H. Ahl (illustrated HTML at atariarchives.org)
• Adventure in Prolog, by Dennis Merritt (illustrated HTML with commentary at amzi.com)

• Alternate Reality Games for Behavioral and Social Science Research (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2015), by Ruthanna Gordon (PDF at CMU)

• Tabletop: Analog Game Design (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2011), ed. by Greg Costikyan and Drew Davidson (PDF with commentary at CMU)

• Tabletop: Analog Game Design (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2011), ed. by Greg Costikyan and Drew Davidson (PDF with commentary at CMU)

• Learning, Education and Games, ed. by Karen Schrier (partial serial archives)
• Teacher Pioneers: Visions From the Edge of the Map (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2016), ed. by Caro Williams-Pierce (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Beyond Fun: Serious Games and Media (c2008), ed. by Drew Davidson (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Gamification at Work: Designing Engaging Business Software, by Janaki Kumar and Mario Herger (HTML with commentary at interaction-design.org)

• The Magnamund Companion (Internet edition, 2012), by Joe Dever, illust. by Rob Adams, Gary Chalk, Richard Hook, Peter Lyon, and Graham Round (PDF at Project Aon)
• The Darke Crusade (c1991), by Joe Dever, illust. by Brian Williams (multiple formats with commentary at Project Aon)
• Beyond the Nightmare Gate (c1986), by Ian Page, ed. by Joe Dever, illust. by Paul Bonner (multiple formats with commentary at Project Aon)
• War of the Wizards (c1986), by Ian Page, ed. by Joe Dever, illust. by Paul Bonner (multiple formats with commentary at Project Aon)
• The Forbiddden City (c1985), by Ian Page, ed. by Joe Dever, illust. by Paul Bonner (multiple formats with commentary at Project Aon)
• Grey Star the Wizard (c1985), by Ian Page, ed. by Joe Dever, illust. by Paul Bonner (multiple formats with commentary at Project Aon)
• Tabletop: Analog Game Design (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2011), ed. by Greg Costikyan and Drew Davidson (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Black Baron, by Joe Dever, illust. by Peter Parr (PDF with commentary at Project Aon)
• The Buccaneers of Shadaki, by Joe Dever, illust. by Brian Williams (multiple formats with commentary at Project Aon)
• The Captives of Kaag, by Joe Dever, illust. by Brian Williams (multiple formats with commentary at Project Aon)
• Castle Death, by Joe Dever, illust. by Gary Chalk (multiple formats with commentary at Project Aon)
• The Cauldron of Fear, by Joe Dever, illust. by Brian Williams (multiple formats with commentary at Project Aon)
• The Caverns of Kalte, by Joe Dever, illust. by Gary Chalk (multiple formats with commentary at Project Aon)
• The Chasm of Doom, by Joe Dever, illust. by Gary Chalk (multiple formats with commentary at Project Aon)
• The Curse of Naar, by Joe Dever, illust. by Brian Williams (multiple formats with commentary at Project Aon)
• Dawn of the Dragons, by Joe Dever, illust. by Brian Williams (multiple formats with commentary at Project Aon)
• The Deathlord of Ixia, by Joe Dever, illust. by Brian Williams (multiple formats with commentary at Project Aon)
• The Dungeons of Torgar, by Joe Dever, illust. by Brian Williams (multiple formats with commentary at Project Aon)
• Emerald Enchanter, by Joe Dever, illust. by Peter Parr (PDF with commentary at Project Aon)
• The Fall of Blood Mountain, by Joe Dever, illust. by Brian Williams (multiple formats with commentary at Project Aon)
• Fire on the Water, by Joe Dever, illust. by Gary Chalk (multiple formats with commentary at Project Aon)
• Flight From the Dark, by Joe Dever, illust. by Gary Chalk (multiple formats with commentary at Project Aon)
• Highway Holocaust, by Joe Dever, illust. by Mel Grant (multiple formats with commentary at Project Aon)
• The Hunger of Sejanoz, by Joe Dever, illust. by Brian Williams (multiple formats with commentary at Project Aon)
• The Jungle of Horrors, by Joe Dever, illust. by Gary Chalk (multiple formats with commentary at Project Aon)
• The Kingdoms of Terror, by Joe Dever, illust. by Gary Chalk (multiple formats with commentary at Project Aon)
• The Legacy of Vashna, by Joe Dever, illust. by Brian Williams (multiple formats with commentary at Project Aon)
• The Lone Wolf Poster Painting Book (online edition), by Joe Dever, illust. by Gary Chalk (PDF files at Project Aon)
• The Masters of Darkness, by Joe Dever, illust. by Brian Williams (multiple formats with commentary at Project Aon)
• Mydnight's Hero, by Joe Dever, illust. by Brian Williams (multiple formats with commentary at Project Aon)
• The Plague Lords of Ruel, by Joe Dever, illust. by Brian Williams (multiple formats with commentary at Project Aon)
• The Prisoners of Time, by Joe Dever, illust. by Brian Williams (multiple formats with commentary at Project Aon)
• Rune War, by Joe Dever, illust. by Brian Williams (multiple formats with commentary at Project Aon)
• Scarlet Sorcerer, by Joe Dever, illust. by Peter Parr (PDF with commentary at Project Aon)
• Shadow on the Sand, by Joe Dever, illust. by Gary Chalk (multiple formats with commentary at Project Aon)
• Slaughter Mountain Run, by Joe Dever, illust. by Brian Williams (multiple formats with commentary at Project Aon)
• Trail of the Wolf, by Joe Dever, illust. by Brian Williams (multiple formats with commentary at Project Aon)
• Vampirium, by Joe Dever, illust. by Brian Williams (multiple formats with commentary at Project Aon)
• Voyage of the Moonstone, by Joe Dever, illust. by Trevor Newton (multiple formats with commentary at Project Aon)
• White Warlord, by Joe Dever, illust. by Peter Parr (PDF with commentary at Project Aon)
• Wolf's Bane, by Joe Dever, illust. by Brian Williams (multiple formats with commentary at Project Aon)

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