Verlag: Univ of Tampa, 2000
ISBN 10: 1879852675 ISBN 13: 9781879852679
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Verlag: Brand: Univ of Georgia Pr, 1994
ISBN 10: 0820316784 ISBN 13: 9780820316789
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Book by Chess, Richard.
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Verlag: Dover Publications, Inc., NY, 1960
Anbieter: Clausen Books, RMABA, Colorado Springs, CO, USA
Wraps. Zustand: Good+. Chess Diagrams (illustrator). Reprint. Couple moisture spots on fep and title page, moisture spot on fore-edges, else textblock is clean and tight. Moderately worn covers and spine, large crease to front bottom corner. 181p. Index at end. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Paperback.
Verlag: University of Tampa Press, 2007
ISBN 10: 1597320242 ISBN 13: 9781597320245
Anbieter: Bulrushed Books, Moscow, ID, USA
Zustand: Good. LIGHTNING FAST SHIPPING! Paperback, in good condition. Pages have LOTS of scattered marks and notes, binding is good, cover is clean. A solid reading copy. ~ Ships Fast!.
Verlag: University of Tampa Press March 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1597321451 ISBN 13: 9781597321457
Anbieter: Magus Books Seattle, Seattle, WA, USA
Trade Paperback. Zustand: VG. Daniel Nevins (illustrator). used trade paperback edition. lightly shelfworn, corners perhaps slightly bumped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.
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Verlag: Everyman Chess / Gloucester Publisher plc, London, 2006
ISBN 10: 185744423X ISBN 13: 9781857444230
Anbieter: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, USA
Soft cover. Zustand: As New. No Jacket. "The Sicilian" covers Vallejo's Viable Lowenthal; Danger in the Taimanov; Take the Sting out of the Open Sicilian; Karklins against the Najdorf; Baklan and Epishin's Sozin Antidote; The O'Kelly Vairation: Not Just a One-Trick Pony, etc. OUR SECOND OFFERING, "Flank Openings," from 2008, ISBN 9781857445831, is as-new unread but with a soft crimp near edge of front wrap, covers Nimzowitsch's 4 e4; The Mighty Mikenas; An Improved Lowenthal?; The Kasparov Gambit; Slaying the Slav; Kramer's Gambit; An Enhanced Benoni, Larsen's Antidote to the From, etc. The pair of trade paperbacks on chess, of 304 and 252 pp., respectively, now reduced from $32.
Zustand: As New. Signed Copy . Like New dust jacket. Inscribed by author on title page. (poetry).
Zustand: Very Good. Location:192 103 pp. Poetry on Jewish themes 192.
Zustand: Very Good. Location:44 95 pp. Poetry on Jewish themes 44.
Verlag: University of Georgia Press, Athens and London, 1994
ISBN 10: 0820316784 ISBN 13: 9780820316789
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
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Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. Pictorial wrappers. Spine a touch faded, small stain on page fine foredges, near fine. Poetry.
Verlag: University of Tampa Press, Tampa, 2000
ISBN 10: 1879852675 ISBN 13: 9781879852679
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper.
Verlag: University of Tampa Press, 2002
ISBN 10: 1879852780 ISBN 13: 9781879852785
Anbieter: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, USA
Zustand: Very Good. Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting. 0.25.
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Verlag: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois:, 1995
Anbieter: About Books, Henderson, NV, USA
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Zustand: Near Fine condition. First Edition. Evanston, Illinois:: Northwestern University, 1995. 6" wide by 9.25" tall. Bright, shiny, clean, square, tight. No owner's name or bookplate. Flat, uncreased spine. Pages are fresh, crisp, and unmarked. The feature article is TOLSTOY'S AMERICAN MAILBAG: SELECTED EXCHANGES WITH HIS OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENTS by Robert Whittaker (pp. 7-44, with numerous unpublished letters by Leo Tolstoy). Other contributors include Philip Levine [an interview and 4 new poems], John Barth, Joyce Carol Oates, Billy Collins, Carl Philips, David Ferry, Alice Fulton, Alicia Ostriker, Richard Chess, Frida Kahlo, etc. . First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine condition./No Jacket, as issued. 280pp. + 8 pages of ads.
Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
Anbieter: True World of Books, Delhi, Indien
LeatherBound. Zustand: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1988 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 180.
Verlag: University of Georgia Press, Athens and London, 1994
ISBN 10: 0820316784 ISBN 13: 9780820316789
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
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Softcover. Zustand: Fine. First edition. Fine in wrappers. Nicely Inscribed to teacher and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Donald Justice, ".who pointed me toward these poems!" Issued as part of the Contemporary Poetry Series.
Verlag: Ishi Press, 2014
ISBN 10: 487187981X ISBN 13: 9784871879811
Anbieter: Revaluation Books, Exeter, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 342 pages. 11.00x8.50x0.78 inches. In Stock.
Verlag: On letterhead of Westood Hereford. Received 25 June, 1902
Anbieter: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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7pp., 12mo. On two bifoliums. In good condition. A long and detailed letter, asking, '[i]n accordance with a resolution of the Wts. & Measures Committee', for Harington's opinion on a point of law, in relation to the charging of fees by inspectors, with reference to 'the provisions of the Acts of 1878 and 1889' and the 'decision in Rex v. Roberts'. Towards the conclusion Anthony states: 'The Wts. & Measures Committee believe their practice of making no charge to be in accordance with the law; but, since what ought to be done in the case of verification only does not appear to be explicitly stated in the Acts, they are very desirous of having your most valuable opinion thereon'. He concludes by offering his 'respectful congratulations on the representative part you will take at the Coronation'. Anthony was the one-time chess editor for his father's 'Hereford Times' and later proprietor of that paper. He was the inventor of several improvements to the printing process, a member of London Mathematical Society, barrister-at-law, President of the Oxford Chess Club, author of books or pamphlets on cricket, billiards, whist and bridge, mathematics and coinage, as well as a friend and student of world chess champion William Steinitz. From the Harington family papers.
Verlag: Printed for Henry Herringman, and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the Anchor, in the lower walk of the New Exchange, London, 1656
Anbieter: Liber Antiquus Early Books & Manuscripts, Chevy Chase, MD, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. A very good, crisp, complete copy of this rare book, bound in contemporary English sheepskin, ruled in blind, rebacked, boards heavily worn. Metal-cut t.p. rule shaved on two sides, portrait leaf with small repair to lower left corner, just entering the blank corner of the plate mark (no loss to image), blank corner of leaf B6 excised (no loss), a few tiny repairs to marginal tears. The book includes a woodcut chess board on p. 14. The portrait of King Charles I is by Peter Stent (fl. 1640-1667). The book includes a poem by Richard Lovelace (1618-1658). In this issue the poem begins "Sir, now unravell'd is the Golden Fleece" and is unsigned. In another issue (no precedence), the poem is titled "To his Honoured Friend on his Game of Chesse-Play" and is signed "R. Lovelace."(See Leon, "The Games of Greco", p. 234). "Gioachino 'the famous Italian' Greco was a masterful chess analyst, head and shoulders above his seventeenth-century contemporaries. Greco's great service to chess lies in the fact that he had made this material known to a wider circle of players than Polerio and his contemporaries had ever reached. In this way his MSS. became one of the most important productions in the literature of chess."(Murray, p. 830) Greco's book consists of 94 chess gambits. For this English edition, the translator-editor, Richard Beale (d. ca. 1666) has included a discussion of the origins of chess and a chapter of rules ("The Lawes of Chesse"). These rules, which include "If you touch your man you must play it," reveal the still inchoate state of the game. The book includes the first known use of the verb "castle". "Known as Il Calabrese, Greco was born around 1600 in Celico, Calabria. Already in 1619, Greco started keeping a notebook of tactics and particularly clever games; and he took up the custom of giving copies of his manuscripts to his wealthy patrons. In 1621, Greco left Italy to test himself against players in the rest of Europe. He apparently met with success while traveling for, on his way from Paris to England, he was waylaid by robbers who divested him of 5,000 scudi, a princely sum. Finally making it to London, he beat all the best players. "While in London, Greco developed an idea to record entire games, rather than positions, for study and inclusion in his manuscripts. He returned to Paris in 1624 where he rewrote his manuscript collection to reflect his new ideas. He then went to Spain and played at the court of Philip IV. There he beat his mentor and the strongest player of the time (other than himself), Don Mariano Morano. He finally returned to Italy where he was enticed to traveling to the New Indies, the Americas, by a Spanish nobleman. He seemingly contracted some disease there and died around 1630 (possibly 1634) at the young age of 30 (34). He generously left all the money he earned at chess to the Jesuits." (David Hooper, in The Oxford Companion to Chess) This English edition begins with a dedication to Montague, Earle of Lindsay, who appears to have extended his protection to the publisher of the text. The editor/publisher proceeds by addressing "the industrious chess player" wherein he compares chess with warfare. He also that chess play enlightens mysteries covered by the Arts and Sciences and "in the most grave and serious professions." "Greco's name is given as "Biochimo" on the title page - "either the original translator, or the copyist of the M.S., or the editor of the printed edition, appears, first, to have misread the Italian of Greco's Christian name; and then, secondly, (like a good Cavalier,) to have had Shakespeare's Cymbeline running in his head. In this way, Gioachino Greco Calabrese, (with a lopping off of what served at least for a surname,) came to take the odd shape of plain Biochimo" (Chess Monthly, May 1861, p. 135).