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The World Chess Championship
by Svetozar Gligoric (1923-2012) and Robert Graham Wade
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
vii+191 pages with diagrams and indices. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial to cover in original pictorial jacket. Translated by Lovett F Edwards. First edition.
The history of the World Chess Championship continues in this volume with the epic struggles between Botvinnik, Bronstein, Smyslov, Tal and Petrosian. All games from the matches are annotated and this book with its companion volume, World Chess Championship: Steinitz to Alekhine, forms a valuable addition to the library of any chess enthusiast who wishes to possess a complete collection of games played at the very highest level.
Condition: Previous owner's name to front end paper. Jacket with edge wear and some closed tears, spine ends chipped else very good in like jacket.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- C2584
- Title
- The World Chess Championship
- Author
- Svetozar Gligoric (1923-2012) and Robert Graham Wade
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper and Row, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York, Evanston and London
- Date Published
- 1972
- Pages
- vii+191 pages with diagrams and indices
- Size
- Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Chess, Ajedrez, Schach, Echecs
- Bookseller catalogs
- /chess;
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The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
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