Author: B[aruch] H[arold] Wood [editor] from the library Yasser Seirawan
Year: 1974-1975
Publisher: Chess
Place: Sutton Coldfield
Description:
384 pages with diagrams, photographs, tables, plates and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Twelve issues volume 40. Association copy from the library of Yasser Seirawan with his embossed imprint on front end paper (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:
Corners bumped, points and spine ends moderately rubbed, some rippling to edges. A very good copy without jacket as issued.
SOLD 2019