Wormald Robert B Editor (4 results)

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. Reading copy. Front board and first several leaves detached. Binding cracked at middle. Back hinge cracked. (chess, history, strategy).

Cloth Hardcover. Condition: Good. Red cloth hard boards. Pp viii, 509. Spine darkened, small nick to fron board upper some minor blemishes but overall a tight, sound copy; contents clear and clean with no annotes etc; no previous names; endpapers uncracked; title page is uncut. Rear board has some pale discolouration. Images/further information available upon request.…

Cloth Hardcover. Condition: Fair to Good. 'A New Edition'. Red cloth hard boards. Pp viii, 509.+ pp.32 publisher's list. Spine darkened with very small puncture and some patchiness to board colour but overall a tight, sound copy; contents clear and clean with no annotes etc; no previous names; dark green/black endpapers are uncracked. Images/further information available upon request.…

Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. x, 509, [1]. With numerous diagrams throughout the text. Maroon straight grained half morocco with 4 raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine and marbled paper-covered boards; marbled endpapers. Joints starting but holding well. Leaves lightly toned with scattered light foxing, a little heavier to endpapers; p. 9/10 corner creased. No annotation or inscriptions. The posthumously published final work by Howard Staunton (1810-1874), the English chess master and probably the greatest chess player of the mid nineteenth century; he died suddenly and the book was posthumously published. Staunton was chess columnist for the Illustrated London News and founder of the Chess Player's Chronicle, the first English language periodical devoted to the game. The standardised pieces he designed are still used today for competitions and he remains a colossus of the gaming world. A very good copy of a major contribution to the literature of chess.…