Game Boards (2 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Game Boards (illustrator). 1st Edition. The front page of this 219 page (small mass market) murder mystery asks : ` Why should the wealthy Max St. Cyr drive his car off a cliff ? '. READ more about : Top Acre, mistress, jackals, kill, roast pumpkin, hothouse grenadillas, Gervase Hughes-Whyte, quava, Hout Bay,Mountain Club, and Chapman's Peak. UNillustrated. Cond : Black ( & white) paper wrapper with white titling. Tight in binding. No names. General wear and soil. Corner piece missing from back cover. READING copy only. QUote (p. 91) : " There was a pause. I could hear soft breathing. Then with a click the line went dead. I hurried out into the hall. Carry had hold of Paul's arm and was ._._._. . ".

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. Game Boards (illustrator). 2'nd Rev. Edition. SUBTITLED : ` The Oriental Board Games '. 212 pages of game tactics - followed by a short biblio, index and the usual pages of Dover advertisements. Read more about : Go Sei Gen, Lin Kai Ho, Chinese Emperor Shun, Wei-Ki, vacant points, and Sh' cho (the ladder). All startegies are carefully illustrated with black & white diagrams of board situations. Cond : Paper wrapper is black with (white and) yellow lettering. Game pieces on the cover are shown in red. No names, tight in binding. colours bright. Minimal soiling. Several soft corners. Excellent working copy ! Quote (p. 80) : " Here, as well as on Black's next move, c15 would be stronger, because it would encircle more corner territory. White would not be able to cut this man off with c16, because after 7,d16 ._._._. ." Size: 8vo.