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Chess Volume 50
by Baruch Harold "B H" Wood (1909-1989) editor
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
336 pages with diagrams, photographs, tables, plates and original wrappers bound in. Octavo (9" x 5 1/2") Octavo (9" x 5 1/2") Octavo (9" x 5 1/2") bound in brown boards with gilt lettering to spine. Complete. Volume 50 numbers 947-970. (Betts: 7-91) First edition.
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:
Occasional pencil marginalia else a very good copy.
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:
Occasional pencil marginalia else a very good copy.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- C0530a
- Title
- Chess Volume 50
- Author
- Baruch Harold "B H" Wood (1909-1989) editor
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chess
- Place of Publication
- Sutton Coldfield
- Date Published
- 1985-1986
- Pages
- 336 pages with diagrams, photographs, tables, plates and original wrappers bound in.
- Size
- Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Chess, Ajedrez, Schach, Echecs
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