SPAYTH, HENRY - Draughts Or Checkers for Beginners

New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, Publishers, 1866. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The covers have fading and wear, especially to the spine joints and edges. There are several patches of missing cloth, mostly to the front cover. The text pages are clean and mostly bright. There is an ink stamped previous owner's name on the front endpaper, rear endpaper and title page. The reverse of the front endpaper and first free pages have spots of toning. "Draughts (British English) or checkers (American English) is a group of strategy board games for two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform game pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over opponent pieces. Draughts developed from alquerque. The name derives from the verb to draw or to move. The most popular forms are English draughts, also called American checkers, played on an 8×8 checkerboard; Russian draughts, also played on an 8×8, and international draughts, played on a 10×10 board. There are many other variants played on 8×8 boards. Canadian checkers and Singaporean/Malaysian checkers (also locally known as dum) are played on a 12×12 board. " (from Wikipedia). Good .