Comment Il Faut Commencer Une Partie D'echecs

Lille: Demailly, 1943. 3e éd. rev. et augm. Octavo in stiff printed paper wraps; , 173 p., [1] bl. pl.: diagr., portr.; 19 cm. Chip to rear wrap; a few small closed edge-tears to front wrap; minor wear and soiling; overall about good(+) thus. Paperback.

In French. Full-page b&w frontis photo portrait of author. Translated from the Russian apparently by the artist Marcel Duchamp(?!). Title reads as "How To Start a Chess Game". Les "Comment" de l'Echiquier; No. 2 [series]. ¶ "Eugene Znosko-Borovsky (Russian: Евге́ний Алекса́ндрович Зноско-Боро́вский, romanized: Yevgeny Alexandrovich Znosko-Borovsky; 16 August 1884 – 31 December 1954) was a Russian chess player, music and drama critic, teacher and author. Born in Pavlovsk, Saint Petersburg Governorate, he settled in Paris in 1920, and lived there for the rest of his life."—Wikipedia / Chess Openings.