First edition, first impression. Signed and inscribed by the author on the first leaf. 150pp. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt lettering on spine. 8vo. Cloth very slightly rubbed at spine ends. Upper text block edge dust marked. Internally a few minor signs of handling else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original dust wrapper, a little bumped and toned on extreme edges, very slightly shelf worn.
This copy from the library of the late George R P Gush. Gush was head of history at West Kent College but is perhaps better remembered as a key contributor to the development of early wargaming, and as an active wargamer especially in Renaissance wargames. His Renaissance Armies (1975) has become a classic work on the topic. He founded the Tunbridge Wells Wargames Society in the late 1960s, remaining its chairman until 2007. A regular contributor to various wargaming and modelling magazines, he authored with Andrew Finch A Guide to Wargaming (1980) and the well-regarded Wargames Rules for Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries.
