THE BEAUTIES OF CHESS, A Collection of the Finest Chess Problems Extant, Including Upwards of Two Thousand Curious Positions Won or Drawn by Brilliant "Coups"
Barthes and Lowell: London, 1846. Hardcover. Fair. Item #21-1280
Diagrams, 11 x 7", crudely rebound much later in green rough cloth, 343pp + 68pp "Solutions", covers heavily worn, spine browned and sunned, browned paper spine label chipped, inner hinges poor, original paper covers soiled, stained, chipped and holed, pp foxed, soiled and used. SWAF. A poor copy of a fairly SCARCE title.
Price: $450.00