Author: Baruch Harold "B H" Wood (1909-1989) editor
Year: 1975-1976
Publisher: Chess
Place: Sutton Coldfield
Description:
[i-x]+408 pages with diagrams, photographs, tables, plates and index. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's brown boards with gilt lettering to spine. Twelve issues volume 41. (Betts: 7-91) First edition.
In 1935, Wood founded the magazine CHESS, which became one of the two leading chess magazines in Great Britain. He edited it until 1988, when it was taken over by Pergamon Press. The magazine absorbed The Social Chess Quarterly July 1936 and the Canadian Chessner, August 1937. The later was continued as Canadian Supplement, published in Montreal in typescript and inserted in Canadian members subscribers' copies of the Chess (edited by Dudley M Leain)
Condition:
Some light edge wear, heal and corners bumped. A very good copy issued without jacket.