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The Russians Play Chess
by Chernev, Irving
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+/Fair (in mylar)
- Seller
-
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Philadelphia, PA: David McKay Company, 1947. Probable First Edition/Printing; Aged endpapers, otherwise textblock is clean and tight with chess diagrams. Red cloth binding, bumped head and foot of spine, light bumping to the corners. Unclipped dust jacket, basically in three pieces, large tear to front fore-edge yet still intact at the corners, several chips on the head and foot of spine, several edge tears and moderate character soil; 200p.. Red Cloth. Good+/Fair (in mylar). Illus. by Chess Diagrams. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Clausen Books, RMABA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SB8163
- Title
- The Russians Play Chess
- Author
- Chernev, Irving
- Illustrator
- Chess Diagrams
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Fair (in mylar)
- Publisher
- David McKay Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia, PA
- Date Published
- 1947
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- Russian Chess Games, American Soviet Chess Championships, Chess Biography, Chess Playing, Chess International Matches
- Bookseller catalogs
- Games & Humor;
Terms of Sale
Clausen Books, RMABA
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About the Seller
Clausen Books, RMABA
Biblio member since 2006
Colorado Springs, Colorado
About Clausen Books, RMABA
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
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- Tight
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- Jacket
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...