Isbn: 9780486229522 - the unknown morphy - games, writings, biography (3 Ergebnisse)

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Used - Very Good.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Front has a scuff at the top right corner and one small chip along the spine. The back cover has toned. One red check mark at the top right corner of the FFEP. Book pages are clean with no marks. Bookseller Inventory BS/BS10622 01/2021.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. vii-[8]-114+[13 ad] pages with frontis piece, plates, genealogy chart, diagrams and indices. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First published in 1932 by David McKay. Paul Charles Morphy (June 22, 1837 July 10, 1884) was an American chess player. He is considered to have been the greatest chess master of his era and the unofficial second World Chess Champion (18581860). A chess prodigy, he was called "The Pride and Sorrow of Chess" because he had a brilliant chess career, but retired from the game while still young. Bobby Fischer and Viswanathan Anand ranked Morphy among the ten greatest chess players of all time, with Fischer describing him as "perhaps the most accurate player who ever lived." Condition: Light edge wear, corners bumped else very good.…