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Chess and Checkers, the Way to Mastership
by Edward Lasker (1881-1981)
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Poor
- Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
xvi+284 pages with diagrams. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 4 3/4) issued in green cloth with yellow lettering to spine and pictorial chess board to front cover. (Betts: 10-97) Second printing.
Reprinted 1928, second edition published 1948; third edition 1960. Chess pages 1-122. An elementary primer. Contents: The rules; elementary tactics (value, powers of the pieces, etc); general principles of strategy (opening, middle-game); illustrative games, and problems.
Condition: Spine rubbed, slight chipping at head of front cover. Jacket 1/2" chip at front heal corner, front head edge chipped, torn at spine ends else a good copy in a poor jacket.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS000208
- Title
- Chess and Checkers, the Way to Mastership
- Author
- Edward Lasker (1881-1981)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- D Appleton and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1929
- Pages
- xvi+284 pages with diagrams
- Size
- Small octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Chess, Ajedrez, Schach, Echecs
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About the Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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