Chess at odds of pawn and move. A Complete Analysis of the Opening; exemplified in two hundred and fifty games, from actual play, contested between some of the best exponents of the last 50 years

Author: Baxter-Wray

Year: 1890

Publisher: W.W. Morgan - Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. - George Bell & Sons

Place: London, Melbourne, Sydney, New York and Paris

Description:

85+[14 ad] pages with diagram. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's green cloth with blind stamped dark green pictorial and lettering to cover. (Betts: 13-32; Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 1844) First edition.

250 games arranged in tabulated form, illustrating openings used in 'pawn and move' odds games. A second edition published in 1891.

Condition:

Endpapers with glue shadows. Toned inside. Cover slightly dusty with bumped corners. Spine and back cover stained else good.