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Play for Mate
by David Vincent Hooper (1915-1998) and Bernard Cafferty
- Used
- Near Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0679507701
- ISBN 13
- 9780679507703
- Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
vii+244 pages with diagrams. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's red boards with black lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. (Lusis: 1078) First edition.
Play for Mate is a book of checkmates. It is necessary for any aspiring player to have a considerable knowledge of mating patterns, and this book presents a wide range of them, in 290 situations taken from actual master play, each with a game diagram, each briefly and succinctly annotated for instruction.
Condition: A near fine in like jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS000811
- Title
- Play for Mate
- Author
- David Vincent Hooper (1915-1998) and Bernard Cafferty
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 0679507701
- ISBN 13
- 9780679507703
- Publisher
- David McKay Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1977
- Pages
- vii+244 pages with diagrams.
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Chess, Ajedrez, Schach, Echecs
Terms of Sale
The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
About the Seller
The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
About The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
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