morphys games chess being selection di sergeant philip walsingham (1 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 3rd Edition. x+352 pages with frontispiece and diagrams and indices. Small octavo (7 1/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. (Betts: 29-89) Third edition. Reprinted with revisions 1916 (a new prefatory note is dated July, 1916); further reprinted 1919, 1921, 1925, 1930 and 1937. Also published New York, Harcourt, Brace, 1916 and New York, Dover 1957. This work supersedes Lowethal's, but closely follows its arrangement, with first a biography, followed by part 1 of the games (matches and Congress of 1857), part 2 (simultaneous and consultation games), part 3 (blindfold games), part 4 (casual games), and part 5 (games at odds). The biography has been rewritten, the annotation overhauled and the number of games increased from 206 to 300. Condition: All extremities rubbed, spine ends rubbed through, corners bumped, lacks frontispiece tissue guardelse a good copy.