What books tell the history of the crossword puzzle?

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What books tell the history of the crossword puzzle?

[ Editor: question reconstructed from a 2002 announcement on the
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[ Editor: the following was posted to npl-folk@puzzlers.org on 25
November 2002 under the subject "Mystery of the Crossword". ]

The Japanese writer Ken Toyama has published the latest book about the
history of the crossword puzzle, two weeks ago in Tokyo. It is a small
size book with 208 pages.

Curiously, it is the first book about the puzzle to show a photo of
Arthur Wynne. "The Strange World of the Crossword Puzzle" and "What's
Gnu? A History of the Crossword Puzzle" lacked this feature. It is also
the first to show in detail how the "crossword craze" evolved in a
country outside America and Europe (in case, Japan). And it shows an
image of a "Blended Squares" puzzle, one of the many WILLz' findings.

I have scanned five images and uploaded them to this page:

http://www.palavrascruzadas.com/mystery/mystery.html

There you will find links to Ken's site, to the publisher's site and to
a Windows Media Player clip presented by the author.

-- Sergio Barcellos Ximenes <sximenes@compuland.com.br>