The Book of Chessmen (Alex Hammond), Christchurch in Christchurch, Canterbury for sale

No signatures. Tears and chips to margins of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; 160 pages + frontispiece. 61 b&w plates of chess pieces and sets. Hardcover. Page dimensions: 248 x 184mm."The book endeavours to describe and illustrate as many as possible of the known and recognised varieties which amount to some two hundred, excluding elaborate sets designed to flatter the ostentatious vanity of princes. It is full of anecdote and half-forgotten lore and will have a most catholic appear."- from dust wrapper blurb. ; 4to
Author
Alex Hammond
Title
The Book of Chessmen
Publisher name
Arthur Barker (1950), London
Shipping time
2 - 5 days
Publication year
1950
Edition
First edition
Binding type
Hard cover
Listing condition
Used
Item condition
Very good
Vendor name
Renaissance Books
Vendor rating
Abebof326d