Beadle's Dime Chess Instructor - c. 1885
Hazeltine, Miron James (1824-1907). BEADLE'S DIME CHESS INSTRUCTOR CONTAINING ALL THE ELEMENTS OF THIS FASCINATING GAME: THEIR APPLICATION TO PLAY BY MEANS OF THE BEST OPENINGS; AND A SERIES OF BRILLIANT GAMES. Beadle and Company. 1860. Pict. wraps. 80 pgs. Illus. with 9 chess board scenarios and figures of the divers pieces. This is the later issue of the second edition, c. 1885. Hazeltone was a prominent 19th century chess authority, chiefly known from his role as chess editor of the New York Clipper, a position he held for more than fifty years. However, his first chess column appeared in the February 3, 1855 New York Saturday Courier, a pioneer effort, one often regarded the first chess column published in the United States. Shortly thereafter, he began his long running Clipper column (August 1856) never missing a single issue until his death in 1907. This book is the first of two book he wrote on the subject, this one appearing initially in 1860, followed by his 1866 "Brevity and Brilliancy in Chess". Very minor expected wear, overall in vg cond.