Author: HAGEDORN, RALPH K. (A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE BY)
Title: Bemjamin Franklin and Chess in Early America
Description: Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press. 1958, First Edition. Black Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Plates. Hardcover, Old return address label on fep; Aged and foxed endpapers, textblock is clean and tight; Cloth binding bumped at the spine tips and board corners; Price-clipped, sunned and edge worn dust jacket, with scuffed spine extremities, tear at front top edge, aged discolored sides and spine; 92p. Franklin wrote "for life is a kind of chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with.". Very Good/Good (in mylar).

Keywords: Chess, Benjamin Franklin Chess Player Biography, Chess Players, American Chess Players Biography Plates


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