
Chess Volume 16
by Baruch Harold "B H" Wood (1909-1989) editor
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- very good
- hardcover
- First
- Condition
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288 pages with diagrams, photographs, tables, plates, lacks index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 7 1/2") bound in half green cloth with green marbled boards. Twelve issues. Volume 16 numbers 181-192. (Betts: 7-91) First edition.
In 1935, Wood founded the magazine CHESS, which became one of the two leading chess magazines in Great Britain. He edited it until 1988, when it was taken over by Pergamon Press. The magazine absorbed The Social Chess Quarterly, July 1936 and the Canadian Chessner, August 1937. The later was continued as Canadian Supplement, published in Montreal in typescript and inserted in Canadian members subscribers' copies of the Chess (edited by Dudley M Leain)
Condition:
Rebound in half green cloth with green marbled stiff boards with "Chess Club" knight on front cover, fold in issues where mailed else about very good.
In 1935, Wood founded the magazine CHESS, which became one of the two leading chess magazines in Great Britain. He edited it until 1988, when it was taken over by Pergamon Press. The magazine absorbed The Social Chess Quarterly, July 1936 and the Canadian Chessner, August 1937. The later was continued as Canadian Supplement, published in Montreal in typescript and inserted in Canadian members subscribers' copies of the Chess (edited by Dudley M Leain)
Condition:
Rebound in half green cloth with green marbled stiff boards with "Chess Club" knight on front cover, fold in issues where mailed else about very good.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB
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- Bookseller Inventory #
- C0250
- Title
- Chess Volume 16
- Author
- Baruch Harold "B H" Wood (1909-1989) editor
- Format/binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chess
- Place of Publication
- Sutton Coldfield
- Date published
- 1951
- Keywords
- Chess, Ajedrez, Schach, Echecs
- Size
- Royal octavo
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