Modern Chess Openings Twelfth Edition

xviii+457 pages with diagrams and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Twelfth edition. Modern Chess Openings (usually called MCO) is a reference book on chess openings, first published in 1911 by the British players Richard Clewin Griffith (1872–1955) and John Herbert White (1880–1920). It has since been through fifteen editions. Harry Golombek called it… Read more about this item

New York: David McKay Company, 1982. twelfth edition. hardcover. very good/very good. 6 1/4 x 9 1/8" 457 pages. dj shows a little rubbing around edges (now in mylar protector). Inside front cover and first page have darkened spots where a newspaper article had been laid in.