xvi+284 pages with diagrams. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 4 3/4) issued in green cloth with yellow lettering to spine and pictorial chess board to front cover. (Betts: 10-97) Second printing. Reprinted 1928, second edition published 1948; third edition 1960. Chess pages 1-122. An elementary primer. Contents: The rules; elementary tactics (value, powers of the pieces, etc); general principles of strategy (opening, middle-game); illustrative games, and problems. Condition: Spine rubbed, slight chipping at head of front cover. Jacket 1/2" chip at front heal corner, front head edge chipped, torn at spine ends else a good copy in a poor jacket.

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Title

Chess and Checkers, the Way to Mastership

Publisher

D Appleton and Company, New York

Publication Date

1929

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

2nd Edition

Condition

Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Poor

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