An Easy Guide to the Game of Chess with a Number of Games Remarkable Solutions
Published by W Simpkin and R Marshall, London, 1818
- First Edition
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB
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[8]+82 pages with engraved frontispiece, two title pages and appendix. Duodecimo (5 1/4" x 3 1/2") bound in original publisher's wrappers with a backstrip. ( Whyld:1818:2) First edition. Preface: For the basis of my performance I have had recourse to a German work, that appeared to me of considerable value, and I have enriched it both from French and English publications, as well as with the addition of some original matter. The BL catalogue suggests that Charles Check may be a pseudonym. Condition: David DeLucia's book plate to front pastedown. Spine not original to the book, stains to page 30 at heal corner, edge wear else good of a scare item. File C.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- An Easy Guide to the Game of Chess with a Number of Games Remarkable Solutions
- Author
- Charles Check from the library of David Delucia
- Publisher
- W Simpkin and R Marshall, London
- Publication year
- 1818
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 1 pound
- Seller catalogs
- Chess
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We are one of the American leaders of out of print chess literature. We also specialize in anthopology, Colonial America, exploration and discovery. We deal in select literature. We consign in our area of specialty and are always interested in buying quality material from single titles to entire collections. Trade offers gladly considered. We have a large selection of rare and collectable chess literature and ephemera. We are exhibitors at both the Texas book fairs in Arlington in November and Austin in January.…
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