This book contains some information about Japanese go (both
historical and current), a glossary of go terms in both English
and German, and a bit about non-Japanese go. It's a quite small
book - only 94 pages, and they're pages the size of mass-market
paperback pages. It has been entirely superceded by The Go Player's Almanac, which
contains much more information about more stuff. (The one
exception is that the Almanac
doesn't have a German-language glossary.) So there's no reason
for anybody other than collectors to try to get a copy of this
book.
My copy is a reprint by Dietmar Hartung. There's nothing in the
book identifying it as such, but sources in the know tell me
that it really is a reprint and that you can tell the two apart
by the paper: the original has nicer paper that is a bit
off-white. There was an earlier 1970 edition which I haven't
seen; I doubt it was too different from the 1972 edition, since
it has the same number of pages. This book is out of print.
david
carlton <carlton@bactrian.org>
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