WALKER, William Greenwood. A Selection of Games at Chess actually played in London by the late Alexander M'Donnell, London: Thomas Hurst, 1836, 8°, FIRST EDITION (some light pencil annotation), contemporary crimson calf gilt, morocco bookplate showing a gryffyn. [VDL 3230] -- George WALKER. A Selection of Games at Chess actually played by Philidor and his Contemporaries, London: Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, 1835, 8°, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece, contemporary calf gilt. [VDL 3209] -- [F. M. EDGE] Paul Morphy: The Chess Champion, London: William Lay, 1859, 8°, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece portrait and 3 plates, contemporary straight-grained brown morocco gilt (sunfaded), gryffyn bookplate. [VDL 762] With an early 19th-century French edition of Philidor (Paris, n.d.), also bound in calf with gryffyn bookplate. (4)

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WALKER, William Greenwood. A Selection of Games at Chess actually played in London by the late Alexander M'Donnell, London: Thomas Hurst, 1836, 8°, FIRST EDITION (some light pencil annotation), contemporary crimson calf gilt, morocco bookplate showing a gryffyn. [VDL 3230] -- George WALKER. A Selection of Games at Chess actually played by Philidor and his Contemporaries, London: Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, 1835, 8°, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece, contemporary calf gilt. [VDL 3209] -- [F. M. EDGE] Paul Morphy: The Chess Champion, London: William Lay, 1859, 8°, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece portrait and 3 plates, contemporary straight-grained brown morocco gilt (sunfaded), gryffyn bookplate. [VDL 762] With an early 19th-century French edition of Philidor (Paris, n.d.), also bound in calf with gryffyn bookplate. (4)

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