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The Celebrated Analysis of the Game of Chess, Translated from the French of A D Philidor; with Notes and Considerable Additions, including Fifty-Six New Chess Problems

The Celebrated Analysis of the Game of Chess, Translated from the French of A D Philidor; with Notes and Considerable Additions, including Fifty-Six New Chess Problems by Walker, George (1803-1879)

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The Celebrated Analysis of the Game of Chess, Translated from the French of A D Philidor; with Notes and Considerable Additions, including Fifty-Six New Chess Problems
Author
Walker, George (1803-1879)
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xxxiii+[2]+251 pages with diagrams. Small octavo (7" 4 1/2") bound in original pebbled cloth with gilt lettering to spine. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:495) First edition.George Walker (13 March 1803 – 23 April 1879) was an English chess player and author of The Celebrated Analysis of A D Philidor (London, 1832), The Art of Chess-Play: A New Treatise on the Game of Chess (London, 1832), A Selection of Games at Chess played by Philidor (London, 1835), Chess Made Easy (London, 1836), and Chess Studies (London, 1844). In 1839 visited Paris and the Café de la Régence, where he lost (+1-2) a short match to Boncourt. In 1845, he teamed up with Henry Thomas Buckle, William Davies Evans, George Perigal, and William Josiah Tuckett in London in two telegraph games (one win and one draw) against a team of Howard Staunton and Hugh Alexander Kennedy in Portsmouth. He won a match against Daniel Harrwitz (7-5) at London 1846. Walker used his column in Bell's Life to propagate organizing the international London 1851 chess tournament, the first international chess tournament. Adolf Anderssen won, leading many to consider him the world's strongest player.Condition:Spine professionally repaired by Octavaye Studios. Corners gently bumped, some light foxing, previous owner's name neatly penned to front paste down else a very good copy.
Baron von Steuben and His Regulations, Including a Complete Facsimile of the Original Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States

Baron von Steuben and His Regulations, Including a Complete Facsimile of the Original Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States by von Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin; Riling, Joseph R.; Todd, Frederick P

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Baron von Steuben and His Regulations, Including a Complete Facsimile of the Original Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States
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von Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin; Riling, Joseph R.; Todd, Frederick P
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Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
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Very Good
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Philadelphia: Ray Riling Arms Books Co, 1966. Facsimile. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 0x0x0. Near fine in good slipcase. Slipcase soiled and a bit rubbed with corners slightly exposed. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1966 Hard Cover. xii, 154, [9] pp. Frontispiece portrait of von Steuben, 8 fold-out plates illustrating troop movement protocols, endpapers reproduced from 'The Pennsylvania Magazine: or, American Monthly Museum' for July 1776, foreword by Frederick P. Todd; introduction by Joseph R. Riling, bibliography of sources cited and checklist of known editions of von Steuben's work precede text. Baron von Steuben, a Prussian-born military officer, is credited with shaping with Continental Army into an organized and disciplined fighting force during the American Revolution. This facsimile of the original regulations, known as the 'Blue Book' by Contintental officers, and later simply as the 'Regulations' or the 'Manual,'is bound 'with some attempt to add a quality reminiscent of the original production... 'half-bound,' using a blue paper as close as obtainable to the original 'blue paper boards' mentioned in binder Aitken's 'waste' book [a facsimile page of which is included in the text].
Cryptozoic!

Cryptozoic! by Aldiss, Brian W

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Cryptozoic!
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Aldiss, Brian W
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Good
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Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1967. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Good/Good. 0x0x0. Book club edition. Jacket front and reverse foxed. Boards and page ridges foxed. 1967 Hard Cover. 224 pp. He roamed through the dim reaches of the remote past and like a phantom, the Dark Woman haunted him at every turn. Was she a hallucination produced by the stresses of his bizarre existence' Or was she a ghost from a future more distant than his own' Bush had been called into a totalitarian world, trained to kill, and then sent back in time - as an assassin. And still the Dark Woman pursued him, posing new questions, new possibilities, new terrors… Don Punchatz
CREDENCES 4

CREDENCES 4 by Bertholf, Robert

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CREDENCES 4
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Bertholf, Robert
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Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
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(Kent, Ohio): (The Credences Press), 1977. Very good plus.. Volume 2, No. 1 of the literary magazine, including work by Robert Duncan, Michael Palmer, Joel Oppenheimer, Ed Dorn, Joanne Kyger, and several others. 8.5'' x 7''. Original saddle-stapled yellow pictorial wrappers. 111, [1] pages. Minor soil to last leaf. Moderate edgewear, spine sunned.

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