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KING, QUEEN AND KNIGHT : A Chess Anthology in prose and verse

Guy, Will and Norman Knight
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First edition. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white line drawings and decorations. (17). The book is divided into 20 chapters considering chess in various forms — in praise, in damnation, in poetry, in drama, in essays and philosophy, in biography and autobiography, in history, in historical fiction, in phantasy, humour, and even in the Proverbs. It is no time to be playing a chess when the house is on fire”.

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AuthorGuy, Will and Norman Knight
Number of pagesvvi, 240
PublisherBatsford, London
Year Published1975
Book Condition

FINE

Binding Type

Hardcover in Dustjacket

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