The Sporting Scene / White Knights of Reykjavik

The critic and philosopher on Spassky versus Fischer in Reykjavik for chess champion of the world. No rumble in Reykjavik for Steiner, he sees chess at this level as part 'autistic passion'; originally published in The New Yorker

Publisher: Faber and Faber. First English edition
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: London
Fine in dustwrapper.


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