The Art of Wargaming: A Guide for Professionals and Hobbyists

xxvi, 366pp; central section of black and white photographic plates. Red cloth-covered boards; silver titles on spine; cream endpapers. 8vo. Rubbed corners and spine ends. Top text block edge tanning, remaining edges just starting to tan. Previous owner’s details on front pastedown; blind-embossed stamp, volume shaken. Otherwise, internally neat and clean and bright. Dust jacket has light shelf wear and chipping to edges, mirrors book damage.

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.