London. Poor with no dust jacket. Hardcover. No date (c. 1890's) . [iii]-iv, 334 pages. Gilt draught board illustration on front board. Title page missing. Final leaf of index missing. Front and rear free endpapers missing. Spine title: "The Game of Draughts // Gould's Book of Problems Critical Positions and Games". A reading copy, lacking the title page and one leaf of the index. Cloth covers very worn. 1/4" missing to cloth at head and tail of spine. Cloth missing along much of the tail edges of the boards. Internally tears, creasing and stains to some leaves. ; 16mo .

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Bookseller: Renaissance Books (NZ)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 003720
Title: The Game of Draughts
Author: Gould, Joseph
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Poor with no dust jacket
Place of Publication: London

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Leaves: Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
Reading Copy: Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
Tail: The heel of the spine.
Title Page: A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Poor: A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...