Author: Gaige, Jeremy (1927-2011)
Year: 1973
Publisher: J Gaige
Place: Philadelphia
Description:
Unpaginated with appendix. Octavo (9" x 6 1/") spiral bound in original publisher's stiff wrappers. (Lusis: 1193.2) Third edition.
The third and last edition lists about 6000 chessplayers and problemists and gives, where available, their dates of birth and death. This edition gives about 2,000 additional names over the second edition. Many gaps and errors have been corrected in this addition. A feature, retained from the second edition, is a listing of the months of the year written in English and number chronological and their equivalents in languages where spellings do not resemble English. The appendix includes serveral pages of Russian name in both Roman and Cyrillic type.
Condition:
Some light wear and age toning to edges else a very good copy.
SOLD 2023