3M Bookshelf Series

3M Bookshelf Games is a series of games published by 3M Games from 1962 to 1974. The name for the series was in reference to the slipcase boxes the games came in, which were designed to look like leather-bound books when closed. When 3M closed its game division, the line was sold to Avalon Hill who continued publishing a number of them.

• Acquire (1962)
• Backgammon
• Bazaar (1967)
• Breakthru (1965)
• Challenge Bridge (1972)
• Challenge Football (1972)
• Challenge Golf at Pebble Beach (1972)
• Chess
• Contigo (1974)
• Events (1974)
• Executive Decision (1971)
• Facts in Five (1967)
• Feudal (1967)
• Foil (1968)
• High-Bid (1962)
• Go
• Image (1973)
• Jati (1965, prototype only)
• Jumpin (1964)
• Mad Mate (1972, unreleased)
• Mr. President (1967)
• Oh-Wah-Ree (1962)
• Phlounder (1962)
• Ploy (1970)
• Point Of Law (1972)
• Quinto (1964)
• Stocks & Bonds (1964)
• Twixt (1962)

The original versions of the games had a plain spine, later printings (and the last four 3M games) had fancier spines:

Traditional games in the series