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Wargame Design: The History, Production, and Use of Conflict Simulation Games (Strategy & tactics staff study)
by Berg, Richard H. [Contributor]
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 091785201X
- ISBN 13
- 9780917852015
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About This Item
Hippocrene Books, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Staff of Strategy and Tactics Magazine : Wargame Design: The History, Production, and Use of Conflict Simulation Games (Strategy & tactics staff study No 2). New York : Simulations Publications, Inc (SPI), 1977. Credited contributors include (in order of appearance) Stephen B. Patrick, Richard H. Berg, Redmond A. Simonsen, David C. Isby, and James F. Dunnigan. Size is octavo (8vo), 9.5"/24cm h. Bound in publisher's denim blue cloth, bright silver lettering to spine and front board. B&w/color pictorial glossy dj. Plain chocolate endpapers. Vi pp prelim material, 186 numbered pp. Intro, sections on Wargaming History, design and development (a case study), graphics and physical systems (by the amazing Simonsen), game design, research, business, directory/library, and symbols/terms/format. Condition notes: Very good with VG DJ/wrapper, minor wear to latter, covered in mylar sheath. Binding solid and just slightly cocked, excellent brightness to lettering, spine ends rolled and corners bumped. DJ spine rather heavily sunned with fading to lettering. Pages clean, no notes, highlighting or inscriptions. An excellent time capsule to the state of wargaming in the Golden Age of 1977. We personally inspect every book we offer.
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- Furrowed Brow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 210419004
- Title
- Wargame Design: The History, Production, and Use of Conflict Simulation Games (Strategy & tactics staff study)
- Author
- Berg, Richard H. [Contributor]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 091785201X
- ISBN 13
- 9780917852015
- Publisher
- Hippocrene Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1977
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- Military History;
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- Rolled
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Sunned
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
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