I'd have to get mine (all paperbacks) off the shelf to check them, but I got Game of Kings, Queen's Play, and The Disorderly Knights as a present for passing my A-levels (I think), so in 1972. I'd had QP & DK from the library before then, but they didn't have GoK!! So I dived in for about five hours, emerging only to go to the loo and (reluctantly) eat. I bought the rest as and when they came out...
ETA: I've just checked, and it looks as if my copy of Checkmate had the same cover artist - it's the same face on the man! Three of them, for some reason, have a dark-haired bearded man on the covers, and GoK, though possibly a different artist, has a rather-too-old blond and a girl who I suppose could be meant to be Christian Stewart, in a frankly 'historical bonkbuster' pose... Ah well. I didn't buy them for the covers. (The only time I've ever bought a book in spite of the ghastly cover was when I bought a replacement for one of my Darkover novels, which had got lost in the post when I lent it to my sister (!!!!), and the only copy I could find was one with the ghastly bald white aliens on it. So I covered it in red shiny paper so that I didn't have to look at it.)
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Date: 2016-01-06 12:01 pm (UTC)ETA: I've just checked, and it looks as if my copy of Checkmate had the same cover artist - it's the same face on the man! Three of them, for some reason, have a dark-haired bearded man on the covers, and GoK, though possibly a different artist, has a rather-too-old blond and a girl who I suppose could be meant to be Christian Stewart, in a frankly 'historical bonkbuster' pose... Ah well. I didn't buy them for the covers. (The only time I've ever bought a book in spite of the ghastly cover was when I bought a replacement for one of my Darkover novels, which had got lost in the post when I lent it to my sister (!!!!), and the only copy I could find was one with the ghastly bald white aliens on it. So I covered it in red shiny paper so that I didn't have to look at it.)