In the fall of 1900, Dr. Gustav Uyterhoeven left the chess garden that he and his wife, Sonja, had created together in Dayton, Ohio, and journeyed to South Africa to serve as a doctor in the British concentration camps of the Boer War. Over the next ten months he sent twelve chess pieces and twelve letters back to Sonja. She set out her husband's gifts as they arrived and welcomed all the most faithful guests of the garden to come and hear what he had written - letters which told nothing of his experience of the camps but ...
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In the fall of 1900, Dr. Gustav Uyterhoeven left the chess garden that he and his wife, Sonja, had created together in Dayton, Ohio, and journeyed to South Africa to serve as a doctor in the British concentration camps of the Boer War. Over the next ten months he sent twelve chess pieces and twelve letters back to Sonja. She set out her husband's gifts as they arrived and welcomed all the most faithful guests of the garden to come and hear what he had written - letters which told nothing of his experience of the camps but described an imagined land called the Antipodes, where all the game pieces that cluttered the sets and drawers of the garden collection came to life to guide the doctor through his fateful and wondrous last adventure. Brooks Hansen offers a tale of spiritual progress disguised in the most exotic visions of the imagination. And yet The Chess Garden encompasses a very real world, too. Alongside the doctor's visions of the Antipodes, the story of his life gradually unfolds as well. History and allegory are expertly woven until finally both lead back to the chess garden itself, a place where ideas give way to vision, reason meets faith, and fact and figment are finally reconciled.
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Very Good in Near Fine jacket. Book A Very Nice Reading Copy-First edition, First printing, with the corresponding number line. Book is in Very Good condition. Boards are clean, not bumped. Fore edges have a small amount of reading wear. Interior is clean and legible. Not remaindered. Dust Jacket is in Near Fine condition. Not chipped or crinkled. Not price clipped. Dust Jacket is covered by Mylar wrapper. A very good reading copy. Thanks and Enjoy.
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Illustrated by HYMAN, Miles full page ilusts. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 6.25 X 1.25 X 9.25 inches VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD UNCLIPT(S23.00) DUST JACKET, clean, solid, bright; GOLD TITLES ON DARK GREEN SPINE STRIP...ALSO TO BROWN HARDCOVERS...white endpapers...white titles on dark green dust jacket showing white candle & garden lecture. all nice..; 481 pages; exotic, spiritual tale combines elements of memoir and parable, in a collection of twelve letters sent with chess pieces to his wife Sonja.
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Hyman Miles. As New in As New jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Hardcover, Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC, 1995. Book. Illus. by Hyman, Miles (illustrator). As New in a As New dust jacket protect with mylar cover. Book is tight and in unread condition. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. First edition. 481 p.
