Tackle Model Soldiers This Way

128pp, some black and white photographic plates. Black cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine. 12mo. Rubbed corners and spine ends, quite cocked. Text block edges tanning and foxing. Free endpapers just starting to tan; previous owner’s details on front free endpaper, pages starting to age. Otherwise, internally neat, clean and tight. Dust jacket tanning, has some shelf wear, 3cm closed tear at front joint, minor loss, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, not price clipped.

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.