Author: Various Authors
Title: The Atlantic Monthly. A Magazine of Literature, Art and Politics. Volume V. January to June 1860
Description: Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1860. Cloth. Burgundy Cloth. Lacking the original wraps when issued individually. 764 pp. A bound volume of this monthly magazine, from January to June, 1860. Articles, stories and poems are unattributed. With an article on chess, including its origins, references to it in literature and poetry, a printing of gambits by Allgaier, Muzio, Salvo and Evans, as well as defenses by Petroff and Philidor and other sequences. Other articles include 'The future of American Railways,' Central British America, the Maroons of Jamaica and Surinam, the progress of the electric telegraph, and a poem, 'The Truce of Piscataqua,' among others. GOOD condition. Ex-library with a circular blind stamp on the title page. No pockets, pastedowns or spine labels present. General fading, minor soiling, minor to moderate scuffing and edgewear. Spine very faded. Page edges foxed, with foxing scattered throughout the interior. Good/No Jacket.

Keywords: Noisbn Chess Literature


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