We have a great new “Pick of the Week” for board game collectors. It’s a 1936 copy of the Transogram game “Big Business”. This game was released in 1936 so this is one of the early copies. It is complete; all pieces and instructions are accounted for. Toy collectors know how hard it can be to find early games in their entirety. It can take years of searching to find a missing piece.
This week I have something special that has been in the shop for a while and has been overlooked; as far as the Pick of the Week goes. It is a 1965 First Mono pressing of the Beatles Help album. There are many different pressings of all of the Beatles albums; collectors always favor the first pressings. Mono pressings of 1960’s records are usually desirable, depending on the production quality and re-channeling of the original recordings.
One hundred years ago the third Tarzan book by Edgar Rice Burroughs was first published as a novel. It was originally released as a serial in 1914. This copy is a first edition in very good condition. Sadly it has no dust jacket. The amazing success of the Tarzan books and other great E. R. Burroughs works insure the lasting value of first editions such as this.