Chess Volume 21
by Baruch Harold "B H" Wood (1909-1989) editor
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
[i-viii]+324 pages with diagrams, photographs, tables, plates and index. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's brown boards with gilt lettering to spine. Twelve issues with index. Volume 21 numbers 253-276. (Betts: 7-91) First edition.
Incorporated 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).
Baruch Harold Wood was born in Sheffield, England. He founded CHESS magazine in 1935 and was its editor until 1988, when it was sold to Pergamon Press. He was also a FIDE Arbiter, a correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, and also wrote an interesting weekly column for Illustrated London News from 1949 to 1979. He co-founded the Sutton Coldfield Chess Club.
Condition:
Some light edge wear, corners bumped a very good copy issued without jacket.
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- Seller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- C0177
- Title
- Chess Volume 21
- Author
- Baruch Harold "B H" Wood (1909-1989) editor
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chess
- Place of Publication
- Sutton Coldfield
- Date Published
- 1955-1956
- Pages
- [i-viii]+324 pages with diagrams, photographs, tables, plates and index.
- Size
- Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Chess, Ajedrez, Schach, Echecs
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