PAUL MORPHY: THE PRIDE AND SORROW OF CHESS

David Lawson

ISBN 10: 0679130446 / ISBN 13: 9780679130444

Published by David McKay Company, Inc, US, 1976

About this Item

Black cloth boards with debossed gold titling and publisher's mark to spine. Pages are clean, no markings from previous owners. Boards are mildly soiled at lower corners and spine tail, likely from water damage, with light bumping and rubbing to spine head cap and tail and corners, light curling to lower corners, light soiling to top edge and lower mid of rear board, light wear to extremities. Binding is tight and square. Text block is lightly soiled to fore and lower edges. DJ has mild soiling to corners and spine tail, likely from water damage, with light creasing, rubbing, and chipping to spine head cap and tail and corners, small closed tears to top and lower edge of rear cover, light scuffing to surfaces, light wear to extremities.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: PAUL MORPHY: THE PRIDE AND SORROW OF CHESS
• Publisher: David McKay Company, Inc, US
• Publication Date: 1976
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679130446
• ISBN 13: 9780679130444
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good +
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +
• Seller catalogs:
  • Games

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Synopsis

Paul Morphy: The Pride and Sorrow of Chess is the only full-length biography of Paul Morphy, the antebellum chess prodigy who launched United States participation in international chess and is still generally acknowledged as the greatest American chess player of all time. But Morphy was more than a player. He was a shy, retiring lawyer who had been taught that such games were no way to make a living. The strain of his fame and the pull of his domineering family led Morphy to set another precedent: chess madness. Morphy's mental descent after retiring from chess became a part of his lore, made all the more magnanimous by a spate of twentieth-century examples. The Pride and Sorrow of Chess tells the full known story of the life of Paul Morphy, from his privileged upbringing in New Orleans to his dominance of the chess world, to the later tragedy of his demise. This new edition of David Lawson's seminal work, still the principal source for all Morphy biographical presentations, also includes new biographical material about the biographer himself, telling the story of the author, his opus, and the previously unknown life that brought him to the research.

About the Author

Thomas Aiello is an assistant professor of history at Valdosta State University. He is the editor of "Dan Burley's Jive" and the author of the forthcoming "Bayou Classic: The Grambling-Southern Football Rivalry" and "The Kings of Casino Park: Race and Race Baseball in the Lost Season of 1932."