Hood's Sarsaparilla Book of Parlor Games

No date, ca. 1890, with one testimonial mentioning an 1889 event. Printed wraps, 12mo, 16pp. Attractive pictorial wraps with red inked edges. Near Fine with minor soil and bumping at corners, contents crisp and clean.

Text printed in double columns, interspersing game instructions with testimonials to Hood's successes with no visual delineation, creating some amusing moments (could the "Mammoth Sneeze" be a game and an health concern? The games include "Shouting Proverbs" (p12), in which the words of a proverb with the same number of words as players. Each player is assigned a word and shouts them at the same at a player who's been asked to leave the room, who must identify the proverb. "Blowing the Feather" and "Roman Statue" are among the other promises of a good time.