LEVITT, GERALD M. - The Turk, Chess Automation

Jefferson, North Carolina, McFarland & Company. 2000, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-7864-0778-6) Hard Cover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Solid with light wear on the covers from rubbing and a small light bump on the bottom right corner of the front cover. A manufacturing defect, the covers are upside down to the interior binding. The original owner has underlined the chess game titles in red ball point pen ink. "With all new research revealing facts unrecalled for two centuries, this is a richly detailed and exhaustive account of the elaborate and astonishing 18th century chess-playing machine in human form known as "the Turk", Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen's amazing Automaton that held the world spellbound for 85 years beginning in 1770.". Good- Very Good.