About this title: Contents Include: Some Account of the origin and History of the Game of Chess - Book 1: The Chess-Board and Chess-Men, Pawns and Movements of the Latter, Recommendations to a Beginner, Simple Checkmates - Notation of the Moves - Technical Terms in Chess-Playing - Relative Worth of the Chess-Men - General Rules and Recommendations for a Learner - ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Chatto & Windus, London
Date Published: 1881
Description: Good/No Jacket. Various newspaper articles and chess game play by plays peppered throughout the book with a considerable amount glued to inside cover, FEP, half title, Preface anmd even Contents pages. Text is still readable if you'rwe willing to lift the flaps (they're glued in margins) Normally you'd think this would detract from a book but somehow the weirdness of it fits right in with the fabulous freakery of chess. Covers are rubbed, especially at edges and corners but internally text and ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Unknown
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781408633816ISBN:1408633817
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Unknown
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781408633816ISBN:1408633817
Description: New. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and... read more
Edition: new edition')
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: London, Chatto and Windus, ('a
Date Published: 1922
Description: Octavo; blind-ruled red cloth; a small spot of sunning to the spine; top and bottome edges a little marked and dusty; endpapers offset; leaves opened slightly carelessly; a very good copy with the dustwrapper sunned on the spine, a little rubbed and chipped and with a small hole to the spine with minor loss. read more
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