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The Chess - Player's Handbook A Popular And Scientific Introduction To The Game Of Chess With An Alphabetical List Of The Principal Openings And A Bibliography By R F Green

by Howard Staunton

Price: $18.50


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Book description: London: George Bell & Sons, 1900. Decorative Cloth. Good/No Jacket. George Bell & Sons Bohn's Libraries Of Sports & Games London 1900. Reprint from stereotype plates. 12mo. viii + 544 + 32pp. Publisher's red pictorial cloth covers, blind band around edges, gilt embossed chess board with full set of chessmen in place on front, gilt lettering + Bohn's cartouche on spine. CONDITION: No DJ, Previous owners' inscriptions inside front cover. Binding tight, hinges only slightly loose. Cover worn, discoloured, particularly on spine such that tilies hard to read. Well loved, as they say of old teddies. Pages brown-edged but inside very clean. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

  • Bookseller: Old Crow Books at Old Crow Antiques CA (CA)
  • Bookseller Inventory #: 000012
  • Format/binding: Decorative Cloth
  • Book condition: Good
  • Jacket condition: No Jacket
  • Quantity available: 1
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Publisher: George Bell & Sons
  • Place: London
  • Date published: 1900

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