Octavo (179 116 mm). Publisher’s deluxe dark green full calf, spine in compartments with raised bands, sides bordered with gilt and blind rules, titles gilt-blocked to front board, gilt-rolled turn-ins, all edges gilt. Colour chess-puzzle frontispiece, black and white full page chess puzzles in the text throughout. Original portrait photograph of the author pasted down to tissue guard facing the frontispiece. Ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper verso. Some scuffs, scratches and stains to the covers, still a handsome copy, sound and on the whole internally clean, a very good copy. Occasional annotations to the puzzles, sometimes giving date of solution.
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