An Introduction to War Gaming (Signed and Inscribed)

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.